Heavy Snow — Menifee, Kentucky

2025-01-19 · Menifee, Kentucky

Event narrative

Snow accumulated throughout the day in Menifee County on January 19th, with an NWS employee providing several updates from their location. An early measured report of 1.4 inches was received at 930EST from 1 mile west of Cornwell. Later, a public report from Frenchburg noted an estimated 3.0 inches at 1620EST. By 2000EST, the NWS employee near Cornwell reported that the total had increased to an estimated 3.8 inches. The final, definitive storm total for the county was a measured 4.0 inches, reported at 2100EST by the same NWS Employee at CoCoRaHS station KY-MF-1.

Wider weather episode

A storm system moving up the coast on January 19th, 2025 transitioned rain to a widespread snow. A period of steady snow in the morning transitioned into more intense, scattered snow bands and squalls during the afternoon and evening before tapering off overnight. The storm produced a distinct northwest-to-southeast snowfall gradient, with accumulations ranging from 1 to 3 inches in the northwest to over 4 to 7 inches in the far southeastern counties, where persistent banding was enhanced by the terrain.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1283255. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.