Winter Storm Watch, North Carolina
SevereHeavy mixed precipitation. Winds and weight of snow or ice on tree limbs may down power lines and could cause power outages.
Ended Friday, January 23, 2026.
Replaced by the Winter Storm Warning on Friday, January 23, 9:39 in the morning.
- Issued
- Expires
- Updated
Places in this watch
- Boone
- Eden
- Reidsville
- Mount Airy
- King
- North Wilkesboro
- Elkin
- Wilkesboro
- Yadkinville
- Wentworth
- Mayodan
- Jonesville
- Mulberry
- Madison
- Fairplains
- Cricket
- Yanceyville
- Millers Creek
- Sparta
- Moravian Falls
- Jefferson
- Hays
- Walnut Cove
- Dobson
- Foscoe
- Pilot Mountain
- Toast
- Blowing Rock
- Flat Rock
- Stoneville
- West Jefferson
- Boonville
- Cove Creek
- White Plains
- Pleasant Hill
- Pinnacle
- Beech Mountain
- East Bend
- Ronda
- Valle Crucis
- Ruffin
- Seven Devils
- Lowgap
- Smithtown
- Danbury
- Milton
- Lansing
Map
- This watch
- Interstates
- US highways
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- Heavy mixed precipitation. Mainly snow and possibly sleet along and north of U.S. 460, and snow, sleet and freezing rain south of U.S. 460.
- Where
- Portions of north central and northwest North Carolina, central, south central, southwest, and west central Virginia, and southeast West Virginia.
- When
- From Saturday morning through Monday afternoon.
- Impacts
- Winds and weight of snow or ice on tree limbs may down power lines and could cause power outages. Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
Updates
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 23, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 22, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 22, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 21, 2026
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Winter Storm Watch issued for Saturday morning through Monday afternoon. January 21, 2026