<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <P> Most severe tornado damage; see Enhanced Fujita scale Time from first tornado to last tornado </P> Part of the 2015--16 North American winter </Td> </Tr> <P> Most severe tornado damage; see Enhanced Fujita scale Time from first tornado to last tornado </P> <P> The January 2016 United States blizzard was a crippling and historic blizzard that produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States from January 22 to January 24, 2016 . Evolving from a shortwave trough that formed in the Pacific Northwest on January 19, the system consolidated into a defined low - pressure area on January 21 over Texas . Regarding it as a "potentially historic blizzard", meteorologists indicated the storm could produce more than 2 ft (61 cm) of snow across a wide swath of the Mid-Atlantic region and could "paralyze the eastern third of the nation". Winter weather expert Paul Kocin described the blizzard as "kind of a top - 10 snowstorm". </P> <P> On January 20--22, the governors of eleven states and the mayor of Washington, D.C. declared a state of emergency in anticipation of significant snowfall and blizzard conditions . Approximately 103 million people were affected by the storm, with 33 million people under blizzard warnings . More than 13,000 flights were cancelled in relation to the storm, with effects rippling internationally . Thousands of National Guardsmen were placed on standby and states deployed millions of gallons of brine and thousands of tons of road salt to lessen the storm's effect on roadways . A travel ban was instituted for New York City and Newark, New Jersey for January 23--24 . The storm was given various unofficial names, including Winter Storm Jonas and Snowzilla . </P>

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