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| event_type | Avalanche |
|---|---|
| ncei_event_id | 564,215 |
| episode_id | 93,810 |
| begin_utc | 2015-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 |
| end_utc | 2015-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 |
| state | VIRGINIA |
| cz_type | Z |
| cz_name | ALLEGHANY |
| deaths_direct | 0 |
| deaths_indirect | 0 |
| injuries_direct | 0 |
| injuries_indirect | 0 |
| damage_property | 0.00K |
| damage_crops | 0.00K |
| wfo_source | Emergency Manager |
| episode_narrative | Right on the heels of the second surge of bitterly, record cold air to affect the forecast area within the same week and only five days since the previous significant snow storm, yet another significant winter storm impacted the forecast area. This storm was result of complex series of low pressure areas tracking along a stalled front across the southeast states and an upper-trough embedded within a very deep and persistent long-wave trough across the eastern U.S. Snow began to fall during the late morning and early afternoon spreading northward during the late afternoon and evening. Unlike the President's Day snow storm, this storm brought significantly greater two foot amounts to the northern portions of the forecast area, especially along the Interstate 64 corridor, while markedly less snow fell in the southern parts of the forecast area. The vast majority of winter storm-criteria snowfall (4 inches east to 5 inches west/6 hours) fell north of U.S. 460 with this event. Very little snowfall fell south of U.S. 460 and especially across the Virginia and North Carolina Piedmont. Snowfall amounts ranged from less than inch across most counties near the North Carolina border and east of Interstate 77 to two feet of snow across northern and western Greenbrier county West Virginia. However, at the end of this event as warm air aloft spread into the region, precipitation changed to freezing rain bringing ice accumulations of 1/10 to 1/4 inch to a number of counties east of Interstate 81.||The heavy snow across the northern parts of the forecast area resulted in two avalanches, a rare event in Virginia. One occurred on Virginia Route 623 in Tazewell county near Burkes Garden and the other was on U.S. 220 in Alleghany county near Iron Gate. In addition, there were over 100 traffic accidents and disabled vehicles across Virginia alone.||The following are snow and ice totals reported from southwest and south central Virginia counties within the Blacksburg National Weather Service Forecast area:||Snowfall:|Alleghany County - 11.0 inches 4E of Covington to 8.0 inches in Alleghany,|Amherst County - 11.0 inches 2SW Pera to 6.0 inches at Elon,|Appomattox County - 3.0 inches at Appomattox,|Bath County - 15 inches at Warm Springs to 13 inches at Bath Alum,|Bedford County - 9.5 inches at Big Island to 4.0 inches 5WSW of Bedford,|Bland County - 7.0 inches at Ceres to 6.0 inches at Bland,|Botetourt County - 12.0 inches at Fincastle to 9.0 inches at Buchanan,|Buckingham County - 4.0 inches 1NW of Gold Hill to 1.8 inches 7N of Dillwyn,|Campbell County - 5.0 inches City of Lynchburg, 3.0 inches at Concord and at the Lynchburg Airport to 2.0 inches at Rustburg,|Carroll County - 1.5 inches 2SSE of Byllesby,|Craig County - 18.0 inches at New Castle,|Floyd County - 1.3 inches at Check,|Franklin County - 3.5 inches at Rocky Mount to 2.3 inches at Callaway,|Giles County - 8.0 inches 2SE Mountain Lake to 6.1 inches at Pearisburg,|Grayson County - 1.5 inches 3SSW of Elk Creek,|Montgomery County - 9.0 inches 5NNE of Blacksburg, 7.5 inches Blacksburg, 2.1 inches Christiansburg, to < 1.0 inch at Pilot,|Patrick County - 1.0 inch 2W Critz,|Pulaski County - 10.5 inches at Pulaski to 2.8 inches at Draper,|Roanoke County - 11.5 inches at Catawba, 8.8 inches at Roanoke, 7.0 inches at Salem, to 3.0 inches 3NNW Boones Mill,|Rockbridge County - 16.0 inches 3NW Rockbridge Baths and Zack 15.5 inches at Lexington, to 12.0 inches at Buena Vista,|Smyth County - 4.0 inches at Chilhowie to 3.5 inches 2N Marion,|Tazewell County - 9.0 inches at Tannersville to 7.0 inches at North Tazewell,|Wythe County - 2.3 inches in Wytheville.||Ice:|Alleghany County - 0.10 inch 4E of Covington,|Bedford County - 0.25 inch 5WSW of Bedford to 0.10 inch 5NNW of Forest,|Buckingham County - 0.10 inch 7N Dillwyn and in Buckingham,|Campbell County - 0.30 inch at Altavista to 0.13 inch 1SE of Timberlake,|Floyd County - 0.10 inch at Floyd,|Franklin County - 0.25 inch at Boones Mill to 0.10 inch 3ESE of Roanoke Mountain,|Henry County - 0.10 inch 6W of Bassett,|Pittsylvania County - 0.10 inch at Pittsville,|Pulaski County - 0.10 inch 2S Snowville and in Pulaski,|Roanoke - 0.25 inch 3NNW of Boones Mill to 0.20 inch in Salem,|Smyth County - 0.10 inch at Chilhowie,|Tazewell County - 0.10 inch at North Tazewell. |
| event_narrative | The Roanoke District Emergency Management Director reported that there was an avalanche on U.S. 220 near Iron Gate. The road was blocked and closed for several hours. Nearly two feet of snow had fallen in the area during the afternoon of the 21st. |
| year | 2,015 |
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