An upper level shortwave crossing the upper Ohio Valley brought light freezing rain through the morning hours of the 22nd. a strong inversion at the surface did not allow for temperatures to warm above freezing at the onset precipitation.
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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 PBZ wrote it up.
An upper level shortwave crossing the upper Ohio Valley brought light freezing rain through the morning hours of the 22nd. While strong warm advection was ongoing ahead of the system aloft...a strong inversion at the surface did not allow for temperatures to warm above freezing at the onset precipitation. This allowed for a light glazing of ice on untreated surfaces over portions of eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and counties north of I-70 in Pennsylvania. Several accidents were reported across the advisory area, including a head-on collision between a car and a school bus in Columbiana county, Ohio.
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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 22, 8:36 AM EST, 54 minutes earlier.
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2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Three teenagers were killed when their car collided with a school bus Saturday morning. The bus driver sustained only minor injuries and no other students on the bus were hurt.
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, Columbiana | 2014-11-22 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect | |
| Winter Weather, Columbiana | 2014-11-22 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect | |
| Winter Weather, Columbiana | 2014-11-22 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, November 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: 550201, 550205.