A potent low pressure that moved across the Tennessee Valley and eventually through the Mid-Atlantic region, brought several inches of snow to eastern Kentucky on January 21, 2014. 5 inches in Cressy in Estill county.
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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.
A potent low pressure that moved across the Tennessee Valley and eventually through the Mid-Atlantic region, brought several inches of snow to eastern Kentucky on January 21, 2014. The reported snowfall amounts varied from as little as two tenths of an inch just south of the city of Harlan in Harlan county, to as much as 7.5 inches in Cressy in Estill county. The area of greatest snowfall occurred across an area generally north of the Highway 80 corridor north to the I-64 corridor.
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 Jan 21, 3:05 AM EST, 55 minutes earlier.
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18 heavy snow, 3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall amounts ranged from 4.5 inches in Clay City to 6.1 inches near Stanton.
Snowfall amounts ranged from 3.5 inches in Frenchburg up to near 5 inches near the Morgan County line.
Snowfall amounts ranged from 5.4 inches near Rogers up to 7 inches near the Morgan County line.
Snowfall amounts ranged from 4.5 to 7 inches across the county.
Around four inches of snow fell across the county.
Snowfall amounts ranged from 3 inches across most of the county, up to 5 inches over the southeast corner of the county.
Snowfall amounts up to 7.5 inches were observed near Cressy in the northwest part of Estill County.
Up to five inches of snow fell across the county including in Beattyville.
Around four inches of snow was observed across the county.
A snowfall amount of 5.4 was observed at NWS Jackson. Snowfall amounts ranged from 4.5 inches up to 6.4 inches across the county.
Snowfall amounts of up to 6.2 were reported near Paintsville.
Six inches of snow was observed near Prestonsburg.
Snowfall amounts ranged from four inches near Gimlet in the northwest corner of the county up to five inches in Sandy Hook.
Snowfall amounts ranged from around three inches in Elkhorn City to around six inches in Pikeville and South Williamson.
Up to five inches of snow was observed near Inez.
Snowfall amounts ranged from around four inches in Whitesburg, up to six inches near Blackey.
Snowfall amounts ranged from near three inches in Island City up to around six inches over the eastern end of the county.
Snowfall amounts ranged from four to six inches across the county, with the highest amounts over the northern part of the county.
Up to four and a half inches of snow fell over a 17 hour period.
Up to four inches of snow was observed near Big Creek over a 15 hour period, but lesser amounts fell to the west.
Around five inches of snow fell over the northern end of the county during a 16 hour period, including at Hyden.
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, 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: 498601, 498602, 498604, 498606, 498610, 498611, 498612, 498618, 498613, 498614, 498615, 498616, 498617, 498619, 498620, 498621, 498624, 498626, 499899, 499901, 499902.