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Eventdex · Cold & Wind Chill

GRAVES

488880

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Event typeevent_typeCold/Wind Chill
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id488,880
Episode IDepisode_id81,445
Begin UTCbegin_utc2014-01-06T08:00:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc2014-01-07T08:00:00+00:00
StatestateKENTUCKY
County/zone typecz_typeZ
County/zone namecz_nameGRAVES
Deaths directdeaths_direct0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect0
Injuries directinjuries_direct0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect0
Damage propertydamage_property0.00K
Damage cropsdamage_crops0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_sourceAWOS
Episode narrativeepisode_narrativeDangerously cold wind chills were observed from late on the night of the 5th through early on the morning of the 7th. Wind chills during this entire period were colder than 10 below zero. The coldest wind chill readings were in the Henderson and Owensboro area during the daytime hours of the 6th...when the average wind chills were around 20 below zero. Average wind chills elsewhere in western Kentucky were from 10 to 20 below zero. The actual high temperature at Paducah was 10 degrees on the 6th. This was the 10th coldest high temperature on record for any day of the year. This was the most severe cold snap of the 2013-14 winter season. The extreme cold resulted in one fatality. An elderly man in the Paducah area died of hypothermia after spending a night outdoors in the cold. The 85-year-old man apparently locked himself out of his house accidentally. The man was wearing a short-sleeve shirt and no shoes or socks. The extreme cold resulted in many problems with burst pipes and overworked furnaces. Demand for utilities such as gas and electricity was near record highs. Water main breaks occurred as the cold weather put stress on pipes. Arctic high pressure over the Plains states produced a strong northwest wind flow of bitterly cold air across the Lower Ohio Valley and southeast Missouri.
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