Name: Winter Weather in Kentucky, December 13 to 14, 2025
Start: 2025-12-13T16:00
End: 2025-12-14T13:00
Location: Kentucky

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 4 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: 4

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 RLX wrote it up.

A clipper system progressing over the area from December 13th to the 14th contributed to the most notable snow accumulations in northeast Kentucky for the month. The orientation of these snow showers from southeast to northwest caused a staggered start time to precipitation, first falling over Greenup County around midday and slowly reaching southward into Lawrence County by that evening.

Heavy snow showers swept through the region late on the 13th into the early morning on the 14th, before the disturbance shifted eastward out of the area. While northeast Kentucky remained mostly south of the heaviest snow from this event, accumulations still ranged between 1 to 4 inches for Boyd, Carter, Greenup, and Lawrence Counties.

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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 2:05 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 2:05 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

4 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, Greenup

When: December 13, 4:00 PM EST to December 14, 3:17 AM EST
Where: Greenup forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 38.546, -82.922 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Boyd

When: December 13, 5:00 PM EST to December 14, 3:07 AM EST
Where: Boyd forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 38.360, -82.688 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Carter

When: December 13, 7:30 PM EST to December 14, 3:17 AM EST
Where: Carter forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 38.318, -83.049 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Lawrence

When: December 13, 9:00 PM EST to December 14, 1:00 PM EST
Where: Lawrence forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 38.068, -82.735 (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

More

Every storm in Kentucky in 2025 Every state in 2025 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, December 2025

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: 1299593, 1299591, 1299592, 1299594.