Winter Storm — Starke, Indiana

2022-12-22 to 2022-12-24 · Starke, Indiana

Event narrative

A major winter storm brought snow and blowing snow that led to whiteout conditions at times from early Friday morning into Saturday morning. Storm total snowfall amounts ranged from 2 to 3 inches, but the combination of snow and blowing snow due to very strong wind gusts to 50 mph led to significant travel impacts and whiteout conditions at times. Numerous slide-offs and accidents were reported. Travel became very difficult to impossible with several road closures reported.

Wider weather episode

A long duration winter storm affected all of northern Indiana with multiple hazards across including heavy snow, blowing snow, strong winds, whiteouts, and dangerous wind chills. Blizzard conditions were experienced across portions of northwest and north central Indiana. Snowfall amounts ranged from 1 to 4 inches across most of northern Indiana, but higher amounts of 5 to 9 inches were reported along and north of Interstate 80 across northwest Indiana due to lake effect and lake enhancement. The storm brought very difficult to impossible travel conditions across the area. High impacts to travel were reported even across areas which experienced the lower snowfall totals. Dangerous winds chills of 20 below to 40 below zero were reported from late Friday night through late Saturday night.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1062272. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.