An arctic airmass overspread northwest Ohio bringing dangerous wind chills. The combination of very cold temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty west to southwest winds of 20 to 30 mph produced wind chills as cold as 25 below to 30 below zero.
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The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.
An arctic airmass overspread northwest Ohio bringing dangerous wind chills. The combination of very cold temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty west to southwest winds of 20 to 30 mph produced wind chills as cold as 25 below to 30 below zero.
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 14, 6:32 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
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7 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 27 below zero was reported by the ASOS station in Lima, OH at 8:22am on January 14th.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 30 below zero was reported by a mesonet station in Hicksville, OH at 7:55am on January 14th.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 28 below zero was reported by an AWOS station in Wauseon, OH at 8:35am on January 14th.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 29 below zero was reported by a mesonet station in Napoleon, OH at 8:15am on January 14th.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 26 below zero was reported by a mesonet station in Antwerp, OH at 7:25am on January 14th.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 29 below zero was reported by a mesonet station just west of Middle Point, OH at 10:00am on January 14th.
The combination of temperatures in the single digits below zero and gusty southwest winds of around 20 mph produced minimum wind chills of 25 to 30 below zero during the morning hours. A wind chill of 28 below zero was reported by a mesonet station near Bryan, OH at 9:05am on January 14th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1150618, 1150619, 1150620, 1150621, 1150622, 1150623, 1150624.