January 18th featured 500mb troughing across the eastern portion of the United States, with ridging anchored along the west coast, a pattern in place since the first of the year. A potent Alberta Clipper moved southeast across northern Kentucky during the early morning hours on January 18th.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 LMK wrote it up.
January 18th featured 500mb troughing across the eastern portion of the United States, with ridging anchored along the west coast, a pattern in place since the first of the year. A potent Alberta Clipper moved southeast across northern Kentucky during the early morning hours on January 18th. Snow developed after midnight across southern Indiana and along the Ohio River and continued through the mid-morning hours. Accumulations of 4 to locally as high as 7 inches developed across southern Indiana along and east of Interstate 65. Along with heavy snow, a strong arctic front moved southeast towards the Ohio River around 6 am. This front brought wind gusts in excess of 35 mph and a quick temperature drop from near freezing to the upper teens. Snow and blowing snow brought dangerous driving conditions and near whiteout conditions during the morning rush hour. A sharp snowfall gradient developed to the west of the main band of snow. Only an inch or so fell across southwestern Indiana across Dubois and Perry Counties.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 20, 10:29 PM EST, 31 minutes earlier.
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4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Four and one half inches of snow was measured in Austin.
The local fire department located just north of Albany measured 4.5 inches of snow.
Six inches of snow was measured in Madison, along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Indiana.
Four inches of snow was measured in Bordon. By 10 am, 5 inches of snow had fallen in Henryville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, January 2014
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: 484107, 484108, 484104, 484105.