An arctic air mass brought very cold air temperatures and sub-zero wind chills across the Missouri Bootheel during the January 14-17, 2024 timeframe. As a surface high shifted directly over the Mid-South, clear skies, light winds, and snowpack left the region bitterly cold with temperatures near zero across the Missouri Bootheel on the morning of January 17th.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 MEG wrote it up.
An arctic air mass brought very cold air temperatures and sub-zero wind chills across the Missouri Bootheel during the January 14-17, 2024 timeframe. As a surface high shifted directly over the Mid-South, clear skies, light winds, and snowpack left the region bitterly cold with temperatures near zero across the Missouri Bootheel on the morning of January 17th.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind chills were 0 degrees to 15 below zero at times.
Wind chills were 0 degrees to 15 below zero at times.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, January 2024
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: 1157677, 1157678.