Winter Weather in Indiana, January 22, 2014

Name: Winter Weather in Indiana, January 22, 2014
Start: 2014-01-22T10:15
End: 2014-01-22T10:15
Location: Indiana

January 22, 2014 · NWS IWX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

One person died on January 22nd in a three-vehicle accident. The accident occurred in Dekalb County around 10:15 am.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.

One person died on January 22nd in a three-vehicle accident. The accident occurred in Dekalb County around 10:15 am. Light snow was falling at the time with roads snow covered and slick.

What forecasters said that day

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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 22, 5:34 AM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 5:34 AM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 22, 4:27 AM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
427 AM EST WED JAN 22 2014

INZ005>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ079>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-230930-
ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-
FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-
HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-
HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-
ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...
ANGOLA...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...
NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...
ROCHESTER...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...
FORT WAYNE...MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...STURGIS...
THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...
DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...PANDORA...
VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
427 AM EST WED JAN 22 2014 /327 AM CST WED JAN 22 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 10 AND 25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED
LATER THIS EVENING INTO THURSDAY MORNING.

SNOW WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT.
ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN A HALF INCH AND TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH ROADS BECOMING SNOW COVERED AND SLICK IN SPOTS. WINDS WILL
PICK UP LATER TONIGHT WHICH MAY CREATE BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED
VISIBILITIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 10 AND 25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED
THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING.

SNOW IS LIKELY FRIDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. MODERATE
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE.

GUSTY WINDS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY CREATE BLOWING SNOW AND
REDUCED VISIBILITIES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED BUT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE
APPRECIATED.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

INZ003-004-MIZ077-078-230930-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-BERRIEN-CASS MI-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...NILES...BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...
DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS
427 AM EST WED JAN 22 2014 /327 AM CST WED JAN 22 2014/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIANA
AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 10 AND 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED
LATER THIS EVENING INTO THURSDAY MORNING.

SNOW WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT.
ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH AS
MUCH AS 5 INCHES POSSIBLE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. ROADS WILL
BECOME SNOW COVERED AND SLICK IN SPOTS. WINDS WILL PICK UP LATER
TONIGHT WHICH MAY CREATE BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE REMAINS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW ON THURSDAY.
SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN A NARROW BAND.

WIND CHILLS BETWEEN 10 AND 25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED
THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING.

SNOW IS LIKELY FRIDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. MODERATE
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE.

GUSTY WINDS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY CREATE BLOWING SNOW AND
REDUCED VISIBILITIES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED BUT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE
APPRECIATED.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-230930-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
427 AM EST WED JAN 22 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

GUSTS TO 35 KNOT GALES ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY BE HAZARDOUS FOR SMALL CRAFT WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND THURSDAY...THEN AGAIN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN ICE FREE
AREAS. GALES ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

The radar

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Event by event

1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, De Kalb

When: January 22, 10:15 AM EST
Where: De Kalb forecast zone
Deaths: 0 direct, 1 indirect
Reported by: Newspaper
Coordinates: 41.398, -84.999 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

One person died in a three-vehicle accident in DeKalb County on January 22nd. The accident happened on County Road 427 at County Road 50 around 10:15 a.m. According to an Indiana State Police spokesperson, a Dekalb County plow truck slid into a semi causing the semi to jackknife. The semi then went into the other lane hitting and killing the driver of a pick-up truck. County Road 427 was closed for more than five hours. Light snow was falling at the time with roads snow covered and slick.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Winter Weather, De Kalb	2014-01-22	20	Male	Outside/Open Areas	Indirect

What these are

Winter Weather: Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Indiana in 2014 Every state in 2014 This day in weather history Warnings in Indiana, January 2014

Sources

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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 485861.