Winter Weather — Columbiana, Ohio

2014-11-22 · Columbiana, Ohio

Event narrative

Three teenagers were killed when their car collided with a school bus Saturday morning. The bus driver sustained only minor injuries and no other students on the bus were hurt.

Wider weather episode

An upper level shortwave crossing the upper Ohio Valley brought light freezing rain through the morning hours of the 22nd. While strong warm advection was ongoing ahead of the system aloft...a strong inversion at the surface did not allow for temperatures to warm above freezing at the onset precipitation. This allowed for a light glazing of ice on untreated surfaces over portions of eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and counties north of I-70 in Pennsylvania. Several accidents were reported across the advisory area, including a head-on collision between a car and a school bus in Columbiana county, Ohio.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 550201. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.