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Tracking Areas of Fire Weather, Winter Weather, and Severe Weather Thursday

Continuation of gusty winds and low relative humidity will bring additional periods of critical fire weather to the southern Plains Thursday and Friday. Another Pacific storm will continue gusty winds and heavy snow over the western mountains into Thursday. Severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of the middle Mississippi into lower Ohio Valleys Thursday afternoon into early evening. Read More >

Overview

An area of low pressure tracked across Kentucky on Friday, January 12th into Saturday, January 13th, bringing widespread precipitation to the state.  Precipitation began as rain across east Kentucky on Friday and quickly changed over to snow from west to east Friday evening.  Snowfall totals generally ranged from a half an inch up to 4 inches across east Kentucky with the highest amounts north of I-64.
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Harold, Kentucky. Courtesy Greta Frasure.

Hatfield, Kentucky. Courtesy Mary Reed Runyon.

London, Kentucky. Courtesy Johnnie Nicholson.
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