Persistent northwest flow off Lake Michigan led to one more round of upslope snowfall for Letcher and Martin counties on January 5th.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS JKL wrote it up.
Persistent northwest flow off Lake Michigan led to one more round of upslope snowfall for Letcher and Martin counties on January 5th.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter reported that 5.5 inches of snow had fallen in Thornton since snow began there on the morning of January 4th.
A trained spotter reported 1 inch of new snow since last night, with 3 inches total accumulation in Inez.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, January 2010
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 206488, 206489.