Low pressure and a strong frontal boundary brought moderate to heavy snow to southern WI. The winter storm started with areas of freezing drizzle and light snow before the heavier snow began.
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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 MKX wrote it up.
Low pressure and a strong frontal boundary brought moderate to heavy snow to southern WI. The winter storm started with areas of freezing drizzle and light snow before the heavier snow began. Many vehicle slide-off and accidents occurred. Some schools and other events were cancelled on January 23rd. A man collapsed and died while shoveling in Milwaukee.
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 Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 21, 5:13 PM CST, 15 hours 47 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
12 winter storm, 8 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Five to eight inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Four to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Five to seven inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Six to seven inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Five to seven inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Five to seven inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Five to seven inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Around six inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle. A man collapsed and died while shoveling.
Six to eight inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Five to seven inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Four to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Four to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Five to six inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Six to nine inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Six to nine inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Six to eight inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Three to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Three to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Four to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
Four to five inches of snow accumulation and areas of freezing drizzle.
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 Storm, Milwaukee | 2019-01-23 | 68 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Indirect |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, January 2019
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: 812255, 812269, 812246, 812247, 812254, 812256, 812262, 812258, 812261, 812263, 812267, 812268, 812270, 812248, 812252, 812260, 812265, 812266, 812272, 812271.