A well developed area of low pressure that passed across the Tennessee valley region brought freezing precipitation and snow to portions of eastern Kentucky on February 2nd and 3rd. The bulk of precipitation that occurred with this system fell in the form of sleet and freezing rain.
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The episode as NWS JKL wrote it up.
A well developed area of low pressure that passed across the Tennessee valley region brought freezing precipitation and snow to portions of eastern Kentucky on February 2nd and 3rd. The bulk of precipitation that occurred with this system fell in the form of sleet and freezing rain. Light accumulations of both contributed to slick roads and numerous car accidents in several counties north of the Mountain Parkway. Some snow also accompanied the system, with 3 to 4 inches reported across portions of Fleming county.
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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 2, 3:09 PM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 309 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 309 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO SAG SOUTHWARD ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND PRESENTLY EXTENDS FROM MARTIN COUNTY...BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST TO MCCREARY COUNTY. THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD PUSH ON THROUGH THE LAST OF EASTERN KENTUCKY OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS WITH TEMPERATURES BEGINNING THEIR RATHER QUICK DECENT. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT HAVE ALREADY FALLEN INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS THE FAR NORTH. THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE PREVIOUS FORECAST...SO OUR TEMPERATURES SEEM TO BE RUNNING FAIRLY CLOSE TO EXPECTED VALUES. MEANWHILE...PRECIPITATION IS ALREADY LOADING UP UPSTREAM...WITH RADAR RETURNS RAMPING UP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THIS PRECIPITATION WILL OVERSPREAD EASTERN KENTUCKY OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...WITH MAINLY RAIN EXPECTED AT THE ONSET. WITH TEMPERATURES ALREADY INTO THE LOWER 30S IN THE NORTH...WE COULD SEE SNOW AT THE ONSET. A STRONG FRONTOGENETICAL CIRCULATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY TONIGHT...WITH IMPRESSIVE OMEGA EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. A CROSS SECTION ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY REVEALS A NEGATIVE AREA OF SATURATED EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE...SUGGESTING SOME POSSIBLE ELEVATED THUNDER THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. ALL OF THIS POINTS TO SOME PRETTY IMPRESSIVE SNOWFALL RATES AS THE TRANSITION FROM RAIN TO SNOW TAKES PLACE. THUS...GIVEN THE EXPECT 0.75 TO 0.90 OF LIQUID MODELS ARE PUTTING OUT ACROSS THE NORTH...A BAND OF 6 TO 9 INCHES OF SNOWFALL CERTAINLY SEEMS POSSIBLE AND PERHAPS EVEN LIKELY. BASED ON UPSTREAM TRENDS...IT APPEARS THE I-64 CORRIDOR SEEMS TO THE BE THE TARGET GROUND FOR THE BEST SNOWFALL. PLAN TO INTRODUCE SOME THUNDER INTO THE FORECAST GIVEN THE ELEVATED INSTABILITY. WILL ALSO INCREASE THE WORDING TO HEAVY SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN AREAS. NO CHANGES PLANNED TO CURRENT HEADLINES. LOOKS LIKE WE SHOULD SEE A FAIRLY SHARP GRADIENT WITH SNOWFALL TONIGHT AS THE THE COLD AIR BLEEDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST...SLOWLY CHANGING PRECIPITATION OVER. THIS CHANGEOVER MAY NOT OCCUR UNTIL VERY LATE TONIGHT...IF AT ALL...WITH SOUTHEAST AREAS POSSIBLY STAYING RAIN OR EVEN FREEZING RAIN. FREEZING RAIN SHOULD NOT BE A HUGE IMPACT HOWEVER...AS TEMPERATURES SHOULD ONLY FALL TO JUST AROUND 32 BY 7 AM MONDAY MORNING...AND WITH RECENT MILD WEATHER...MAY NOT BE A BIG IMPACT. REGARDLESS...A FEW SLICK SPOTS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE AND PLAN TO RIDE WITH THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE HAL ROGERS PARKWAY MAY ONLY SEE A DUSTING TO AN INCH OF SNOWFALL. PRECIPITATION WILL WIND DOWN MONDAY MORNING...BEFORE COMING TO AN END ACROSS THE EAST BY MIDDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY BE HELD DOWN ACROSS THE NORTH WITH THE FRESH SNOW...WHILE AREAS IN THE SOUTH MAY RECOVER BACK TO AROUND 40 BY THE AFTERNOON. BY MONDAY NIGHT...FRESH SNOW COVER AND CLEARING SKIES WILL ALLOW A QUICK DROP OFF IN TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTH...WITH VALLEY LOCATIONS LIKELY FALLING INTO THE LOW 20S FOR LOWS. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY) ISSUED AT 224 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 THE MODELS START OUT IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH A TROUGH ON THE SOUTHERN STREAM EXTENDING SOUTH FROM COLORADO TO THE THE SONORA DESSERT. THERE IS ANOTHER TROUGH EXTENDING FROM IDAHO TO UTAH ON THE NORTHERN STREAM. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM NORTHERN MICHIGAN TO SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA ON THE NORTHERN STREAM AND ANOTHER FRONT LIES ALONG THE GULF COAST. A LOW IS FORECAST TO FORM ON THE FRONT OVER LOUISIANA ON TUESDAY MORNING. THE LOW WITH STRENGTHEN AND MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AS THE NORTHERN STREAM COLD FRONT ALSO DIP TO THE SOUTH. THE UPPER LOWS LOOK LIKE THEY WILL BE PHASING AND THIS WILL BRING A STRONG COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA ON TUESDAY. THE SURFACE LOW THAT WAS ORIGINALLY OVER LOUISIANA...WILL PUMP SOME MOISTURE UP AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM. THE MAIN LOW WILL EVENTUALLY PASS TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA. THE COMBINATION OF THE PHASING UPPER TROUGHS AND THE AVAILABLE MOISTURE WILL GIVE THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL WITH THIS SYSTEM THAT COULD RESULT IN SOME INITIAL LOCALIZED FLOODING FOLLOW BY SOME HIGH RIVERS. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES OUT OF THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...THE RAIN WILL MIX WITH SNOW AND THEN BECOME ALL SNOW AS A LAST GASP AS THE SYSTEM EXITS. VERY LITTLE ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED AS THE LAST OF THE SNOW MOVES INTO VIRGINIA ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. . THE UPPER AIR BECOMES MORE ZONAL ON WEDNESDAY...HOWEVER BY FRIDAY ANOTHER UPPER TROUGH WILL DROP INTO THE SOUTHWEST AND THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL ENTER INTO THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND REMAIN UNSETTLED THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z MONDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 100 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 IFR CEILINGS WILL CONTINUE AS A COLD FRONT REMAINS JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA. THE MODELS ARE PREDICTING THAT A WAVE WILL MOVE ALONG THE FRONT AND PASS TO THE SOUTH OF AREA. AS THIS FRONT NEARS...IT WILL ENERGIZE THE FRONT AND WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD RAIN TO TURN TO SNOW THE QUESTION IS WHERE THE CUT OFF IS BETWEEN THE RAIN AND THE SNOW AND IF THERE WILL BE ANY FREEZING RAIN AT THE TAF STATIONS. SOME OF THE TAF MOS SOLUTIONS HAD SOME FREEZING PRECIPITATION PREDICTED AT THE TAF STATIONS...HOWEVER FROM DOING TOP DOWN ANALYSIS ON THE NAM BUFFER SOUNDINGS...THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION LOOKS VERY UNLIKELY. IT IS POSSIBLE...THAT SME AND LONDON MAY NOT HAVE MUCH SNOW BUT BE MORE OF A RAIN AND SNOW MIX. THERE IS STILL QUITE A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY ON THE LOW TRACK WHICH COULD CAUSE BIG ADJUST TO THE FORECAST. THE AREA NORTH OF I 64 IS THE MOST LIKELY TO SEE THE HEAVY SNOW. && .JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 10 AM EST MONDAY FOR KYZ044-050>052. WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM EST MONDAY FOR KYZ058>060-104-106-108-111. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM EST MONDAY FOR KYZ079-080-110-113-115>117-119-120. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 1 PM EST MONDAY FOR KYZ083>088-118. WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EST MONDAY FOR KYZ068-069-107-109-112-114. && SHORT TERM...KAS LONG TERM...JJ AVIATION...JJ
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 400 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 KYZ044-050>052-032100- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD 400 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT...FALLING HEAVY AT TIMES. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF EARLY MONDAY MORNING...WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 9 INCHES EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MAY FALL TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT RISES ALONG AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY EVENING...AS WELL AS FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL TOTALS TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. KYZ058>060-104-106-108-111-032100- ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ELLIOTT-MORGAN-WOLFE-LEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG... SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...CAMPTON...BEATTYVILLE 400 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW EARLY THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT...FALLING HEAVY AT TIMES. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF MONDAY MORNING...WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 9 INCHES EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MAY FALL TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT RISES ALONG AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY EVENING...AS WELL AS FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL TOTALS TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. KYZ079-080-110-113-115>117-119-120-032100- PULASKI-LAUREL-FLOYD-KNOTT-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-MARTIN-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SOMERSET...LONDON...PRESTONSBURG... HINDMAN...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...INEZ...PIKEVILLE 400 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET MAY ALSO MIX IN WITH THE SNOW AT TIMES. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF MONDAY MORNING...WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MAY FALL TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT RISES ALONG AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY EVENING...AS WELL AS FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL TOTALS TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. KYZ083>088-118-032100- WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX-BELL-HARLAN-LETCHER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTICELLO...WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN... WILLIAMSBURG...BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO...PINEVILLE...HARLAN... WHITESBURG 400 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 1 PM EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO LATE THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF MONDAY MORNING...WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MAY FALL TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT RISES ALONG AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY EVENING...AS WELL AS FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL TOTALS TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. KYZ068-069-107-109-112-114-032100- ROCKCASTLE-JACKSON-JOHNSON-MAGOFFIN-BREATHITT-OWSLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...PAINTSVILLE... SALYERSVILLE...JACKSON...BOONEVILLE 400 PM EST SUN FEB 2 2014 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EST MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT...FALLING HEAVY AT TIMES. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF EARLY MONDAY MORNING...WITH TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MAY FALL TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT RISES ALONG AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY EVENING...AS WELL AS FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL TOTALS TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. KAS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 winter storm, 1 winter weather, 1 sleet. Local standard time, as filed.
Three and a half inches of snow fell 2 miles north of Flemingsburg. Sleet mixed in with the snow over the southern end of the county reducing snowfall amounts there.
At least half an inch of sleet had fallen along the Bath and Menifee county line. Up to 2 inches of snow later accumulated on top of the layer of sleet. A quarter to a half an inch of sleet accumulation had occurred in Owingsville, causing cars to slide off the road and into the median.
A slushy layer of sleet covered the roads in Mount Sterling with up to 2 inches of snow across the county.
Half an inch of sleet had fallen in Wellington.
Up to an inch of sleet and freezing had accumulated and was later covered by less than an inch of snow fall.
At least half an inch of sleet and freezing rain accumulated in Sandy Hook overnight and was later covered by 2 inches of new snow fall.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, February 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 493224, 493236, 493220, 493246, 493235, 493237.