Cold/Wind Chill — Giles, Virginia

1996-02-03 to 1996-02-06 · Giles, Virginia

Wider weather episode

Bitterly cold air overspread southwest,west-central and south-central Virginia on the 3rd and continued until the 6th. Several daily low temperature records were established. At Lynchburg Regional Airport, the low on the morning of the 5th was 10 degrees below zero; tying the all-time record low. A Giles County man died of exposure and was found during the afternoon hours on the 3rd in the front yard of his Wolf Creek home. At Burkes Garden in Bland County, the low temperature on the 5th was 22 degrees below zero. There was an unofficial report of a morning low on the 5th of 20 degrees below zero in Pond Lick Hollow in Pulaski County. Most locations had morning lows on the 5th from zero to 12 degrees below zero. In south-central Virginia, several homes that did not have power restored after the ice storm were damaged when water pipes froze and ruptured.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5539670. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.