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Winter Storm Octavia: Snow and Ice Reports
Winter Storm Octavia: Snow and Ice Reports
Jan 17, 2024 3:31 PM

Winter Storm Octavia spread snow, sleet and freezing rain in a stripe from the Plains to the Appalachians and East Coast Feb. 15-17, 2015.

On this page we have a list of selected snowfall, sleet and ice accumulation reports, organized by state, from Winter Storm Octavia.

Bold reports are from official National Weather Service observation sites.

Octavia's Mid-Atlantic snow totals.

Octavia's snow history from Missouri to West Virginia.

This map gives an idea of the location of the sleet and freezing rain accumulation reports from Octavia, stretching from Oklahoma to North Carolina. Each blue circle represents a report of sleet or freezing rain.

Massachusetts

- 5.5 inches in Plymouth- 4 inches in Falmouth- 0.6 inches at Boston's Logan Airport

Rhode Island

- 5 inches in Greene- 5 inches in Warwick

Connecticut

- 4 inches in Moosup- 3 inches in Milford- 1.5 inches in Danbury

New York

- 5.6 inches in Lindenhurst- 5.1 inches in Glendale- 5 inches in Bay Shore- 3.7 inches in Brooklyn- 3.3 inches at New York City's Central Park

New Jersey

- 7 inches in Cape May and Neptune City- 6 inches in Brick Township- 3.2 inches in Newark

Pennsylvania

- 6.1 inches in Florence- 5 inches in Levittown- 3.7 inches at Philadelphia International Airport

Delaware

- 6.5 inches in Woodside- 6 inches in Georgetown- 4 inches in Lewes

Maryland

- 8.9 inches in Hollywood- 8 inches in Salisbury- 6.5 inches in Lusby- 5 inches in Laurel

District of Columbia

- 5.3 inches near the National Zoo- 3.6 inches in east Washington

Virginia

- 17 inches near Norton- 14 inches in Wise- 9 inches in Blacksburg- 8 inches near Lynchburg- 6 inches in Richmond- 4.7 inches at Reagan Washington National Airport- 3.9 inches at Dulles Airport northwest of Washington, D.C.

Ice:

- 3 inches of sleet near Marion

North Carolina

- 5 inches near Mount Jefferson- 4.5 inches in Boone

Ice reports (all freezing rain unless otherwise noted):

- Up to 0.50 inch accumulation in Dunn and near Mount Olive- 0.40 inch accumulationin Cantons- 0.29 inchaccumulation in Fayetteville- 0.25 inch accumulation in Clinton and Laurinburg with trees and power lines down- 0.10 inch accumulation in Charlotte

- 2.5 inches sleet near Lenoir- 0.6 inches sleet near Raleigh (some freezing rain mixed in)- 0.3 inches snow and sleet accumulation at Raleigh-Durham International Airport- 0.5 inches sleet in Charlotte

South Carolina

- Trees down due to ice Greenville County, Greenwood County, Anderson County, Spartanburg County, Newberry County and Laurens County- Up to 0.50 inch ice accumulation in or near Lancaster, Chesterfield, Winnsboro and Newberry- 1.3 inches of sleet in Greenville- 1.2 inches of sleet in Spartanburg

West Virginia

- 15.0 inches in Logan- 14.5 inches near Oceana- 11.1 inches in Huntington- 8 inches in Beckley- 9 inches in Bluefield- 7.1 inches at the National Weather Service office in Charleston

Georgia

Ice reports (all freezing rain unless otherwise noted):

- 0.50 inch accumulation on trees in Dawson County with about 250 trees down. 40 percent of the county lost power.- Near 0.25 inch accumulation in Canton and Cumming.- 0.24 inch in accumulationDacula (eastern suburbs of Atlanta) on cars, trees, power lines- 0.10 inch in accumulationSandy Plains, Woodstock and Alpharetta (northern Atlanta suburbs), mostly on trees

- 0.9 inch of sleet in Cleveland- 0.5 inch of sleet in Dahlonega and Clayton

Alabama

Ice reports:

- 0.2 inch estimated accumulation near Cloverdale (limbs snapping)- 0.1 to 0.2 inch accumulation near Athens, Waterloo, and Lexington

Mississippi

Ice reports:

- Up to 0.5 inch accumulation in Alcorn County (trees/limb damage)- Up to 0.5 inch ice glaze in Batesville, Tunica and Holly Springs- 0.15 inch in Greenville and Cleveland- Light icing on bridges and overpasses in the Yazoo City area- Light icing on vehicles in Clinton and Starkville

Tennessee

- up to 6 inches in Clarksville- 5.5 inches near Westmoreland- 5 inches near Portland and TiptonvilleIce reports (freezing rain unless otherwise noted):

- 0.75 to 1 inch of freezing rain and sleet accumulation in Bartlett (Memphis suburb)- up to 0.75 inch in Strawberry Plains- 0.66 inch accumulation with tree branches snapping inMurfreesboro- 0.50 inch accumulation with trees down and no power near Gallatin- Up to 0.50 inch ice accumulation in Dayton, Rockwood, Athens and Decatur with widespread tree damage and power outages- Up to 0.50 inch ice accumulation in Knoxville- 0.40 inch accumulation in the Nashville area- 4 inches of sleet in Sneedville- 2 to 3 inches of sleet in Franklin- 2 inches of sleet in Greenbrier

Kentucky

- 18 inches near Coleman in far eastern Kentucky- 13 inches in Princeton and Eddyville-10.8 inches in Paducah(Note: Only fifth calendar day since 1948 with 8 inches or more of snow in Paducah.)- 10.2 inches in Lexington (Note: First 8+ inch snowstorm since Feb. 4-5, 1998)- 9.6 inches in Bowling Green (Note: First 8+ inch snowstorm since Feb. 3-4, 1998)- 8.2 inches in Louisville- 6.3 inches atCincinnati - Northern Kentucky International Airport

- 5.3 inches of sleet at Slade in eastern Kentucky- 2.7 inches of sleet near Jackson

Ohio

- 8 inches in Ironton- 7 inches near Ashland- 7 inches near Waverly- 1.7 inches at Port Columbus International Airport- 1.2 inches at Dayton International Airport

Indiana

- 8.5 inches in Bedford- 8 inches in Vevay, Fredonia, Sulphur and near Bedford- 6.8 inches in Evansville- 5.7 inches at Evansville Regional Airport- 2 inches in Terre Haute-1.2 inches at Indianapolis International Airport

Illinois

- 13 inches in Eddyville- 12 inches in Metropolis, Mermet and Karnak- 11 inches at Anna- 8 inches in Jerseyville- 6 inches in Carbondale

Missouri

- 12 inches in Scott City- up to 12 inches in Cape Girardeau- 11.5 inches in Advance- 6 inches in Joplin- 6 inches near Springfield- 4.6 inches at Lambert - St. Louis International Airport- 3.0 inches at Springfield-Branson National Airport west of Springfield- 2.1 inches at Kansas City International Airport

Arkansas

- 5 inches (mixed with sleet) in Bentonville- 2-3 inches of sleet in Jasper- 1.3 inches (mixed with sleet) in Fayetteville- 0.7 inch sleetand 0.1 inch ice accumulation at NWS office in N. Little Rock

Oklahoma

- 6 inches in Bartlesville-2.7 inches (mixed with sleet) at the NWS-Tulsa office- 1.5 inches (mixed with sleet) in Broken Arrow

Kansas

- 3.5 inches in Atchison- 2.4 inches in Manhattan- 0.7 inches at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport

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