Winter Weather in Indiana, February 23, 2022

Name: Winter Weather in Indiana, February 23, 2022
Start: 2022-02-23T18:00
End: 2022-02-23T22:00
Location: Indiana

February 23, 2022 · NWS PAH · 6 events in 6 counties and zones

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 6 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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 PAH wrote it up.

Widespread sleet and freezing rain occurred during the evening of the 23rd, followed by some patchy freezing drizzle or light rain overnight. A heavier round of precipitation on the 24th had little if any impact due to temperatures inching just above freezing. Ice and sleet accumulations were generally under one-quarter inch. The wintry precipitation on the evening of the 23rd caused very hazardous travel during the evening commute. A car flipped over on the Lloyd Expressway in Evansville. The wintry precipitation was caused by a moist southwest flow aloft, associated with a 500 mb trough over the western Plains. At the same time, surface high pressure advancing from the northern Plains produced a cold northerly surface wind. The cold low levels enabled the precipitation to stay freezing rain and sleet.

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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 23, 5:50 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 5:50 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 23, 5:20 PM CST, 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 23, 2:20 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
220 PM CST WED FEB 23 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0215 PM     FREEZING RAIN    DUDLEY                  36.79N 90.09W
02/23/2022  E0.00 INCH       STODDARD           MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LIGHT FREEZING RAIN HAS BEGUN, AND IS
            FREEZING TO SOME SURFACES AT GROUND LEVEL.
            TEMP 27 DEGREES.

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RST

Local storm report, Feb 23, 3:23 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
323 PM CST WED FEB 23 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0215 PM     SLEET            5 NNW OXLY              36.66N 90.71W
02/23/2022  M0.1 INCH        RIPLEY             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            GROUND AND ROOFS ALMOST WHITE WITH SLEET.
            METAL BIRD FEEDERS HAVE ONE INCH PLUS
            ICICLES. CURRENT CONDITIONS, LIGHT TO
            OCCASIONALLY MODERATE FREEZING RAIN MIXED
            WITH SLEET. TEMPERATURE 26.3.

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DWS

Local storm report, Feb 23, 3:52 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
352 PM CST WED FEB 23 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0351 PM     SLEET            EAST PRAIRIE            36.78N 89.38W
02/23/2022  M0.3 INCH        MISSISSIPPI        MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SLEET ACCUMULATION BEGINNING ON ROADS.

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DWS

Local storm report, Feb 23, 5:47 PM CST, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 23, 5:58 PM CST, 2 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

6 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, Gibson

When: February 23, 6:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Gibson forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 38.312, -87.585 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Posey

When: February 23, 6:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Posey forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 38.022, -87.868 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Vanderburgh

When: February 23, 6:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Vanderburgh forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 38.025, -87.586 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Warrick

When: February 23, 6:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Warrick forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 38.092, -87.272 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Pike

When: February 23, 7:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Pike forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 38.399, -87.232 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Spencer

When: February 23, 7:00 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Spencer forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 38.014, -87.008 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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 2022 Every state in 2022 This day in weather history Warnings in Indiana, February 2022

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1002152, 1002153, 1002155, 1002156, 1002154, 1002158.