Kentucky, 2024Heavy Snow in Kentucky, December 2 to 3, 2024
December 2 to 3, 2024 · NWS JKL · 1 event in 1 county or zone
A weak clipper low clipped eastern Kentucky with a round of mainly light snow for many locations south of the Mountain Parkway from the evening of December 2nd into the morning of December 3rd. Most spots picked up one inch or less of accumulation.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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A weak clipper low clipped eastern Kentucky with a round of mainly light snow for many locations south of the Mountain Parkway from the evening of December 2nd into the morning of December 3rd. Most spots picked up one inch or less of accumulation. However, localized orographic enhancement led to a couple inches of accumulation on top of some of the higher mountains and even a lone 4 inch report near the summit of Big Black Mountain.
Heavy Snow, Harlan
- When
- December 2, 6:00 PM EST to December 3, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Harlan forecast zone
- Reported by
- Department of Highways
- Coordinates
- 36.857, -83.218 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The Harlan County highway department reported approximately 4 inches of snow accumulation along KY-160 near the Virginia-Kentucky state line just below the summit of Big Black Mountain. Elsewhere within the county, reports were generally lower: approximately 2 inches on US-421 atop Pine Mountain and 0.5 to 1.0 inch in the valleys as per a highway department report from Dayhoit and a CoCoRaHS observer report from 5 miles northeast of Baxter.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1229388.