February 12-14, 2007 Central Indiana Snow Storm

February 12-14, 2007 Snow Storm

A heavy snow event struck central Indiana on February 12th through the 14th, 2007. The snow began during the evening of February 12th, moving from the southwest to northeast across Central Indiana. The snow continued at Indianapolis for nearly 30 hours, and when it was all done, during the early morning hours of February 14th, Indianapolis had received 8.5 inches of snow.

Blowing and drifting of snow became problematic during the evening of February 13th and during the early morning hours of February 14th. Snow drifts caused the most problems in the areas that received the most snow, mainly north of Interstate 70.

The low pressure system that produced the storm tracked along and south of the Ohio River across Kentucky which is an ideal storm track for heavy snow in central Indiana. Snow amounts with the storm were heaviest along a Lafayette to Muncie line. Many cities along this line received over a foot of snow. The largest amount of snow was measured in Lafayette, where 17 inches was measured by meteorologists at a television station. This ranks a tie for the second largest snowfall over a three day period in Lafayette. The largest snowfall in Lafayette was 20.5 inches on December 19-20, 1929.

A full map of snowfall reports from can be found here

Snowfall Reports:

Inches of Snow	Location	County	Time of Report
17.0	Lafayette (WLFI-TV)	Tippecanoe	445 AM
15.0	Alexandria	Madison	952 PM
14.5	10 E Lafayette	Tippecanoe	800 PM
14.0	Attica	Fountain	800 PM
14.0	Frankfort	Clinton	800 PM
13.0	1 N Winchester	Randolph	342 PM
12.0	Kokomo	Howard	458 PM
11.8	2.9 NNE Muncie	Delaware	700 AM
11.0	Muncie	Delaware	126 PM
11.0	0.5 SSE Lebanon	Boone	600 AM
11.0	0.4 WNW Covington	Fountain	700 AM
10.0	4.6 SE New Castle	Henry	700 AM
10.0	4.5 NNE Lizton	Boone	700 AM
9.9	3.0 NE Lafayette	Tippecanoe	700 AM
9.0	4.0 ENE Kokomo	Howard	700 AM
9.8	Carmel	Hamilton	945 PM
9.3	4.6 S Brownsburg	Hendricks	700 AM
8.9	3.8 SE Beech Grove	Marion	700 AM
8.8	Castleton	Marion	1000 AM
8.5	5 E Brownsburg	Marion	636 PM
8.5	5 NNW Indianapolis	Marion	538 PM
8.2	1.6 ESE Martinsville	Morgan	700 AM
8.0	3.2 E Indianapolis	Marion	700 AM
7.5	0.8 SW Shelbyville	Shelby	700 AM
7.0	5.2 E Greenwood	Johnson	700 AM
6.0	New Whiteland	Johnson	1030 PM
2.5	3.0 N Columbus	Bartholomew	700 AM
2.5	1.9 S Bloomington	Monroe	700 AM
1.7	0.3 WSW Sullivan	Sullivan	700 AM
0.8	0.4 NW Vincennes	Knox	700 AM
0.6	1.5 NW Washington	Daviess	700 AM
0.5	0.6 E Newberry	Greene	700 AM
0.4	4.8 ENE Mitchell	Lawrence	700 AM
T	3.4 NW Crothersville	Jackson	700 AM

Totals come from trained snowfall spotters, the broadcast media, National Weather Service Observations, and CoCoraHS observers.

Here at the National Weather Service in Indianapolis we would like to thank all of our spotters, broadcast media, emergency managers, and CoCoraHS observers for timely snowfall and weather condition reports. Below are a few winter scenes sent to the NWS from spotters.