Extreme Cold/Wind Chill — Knox, Kentucky

2015-02-19 to 2015-02-20 · Knox, Kentucky

Event narrative

The coroner in Knox County said that a man in his 50's was found dead along Highway 1304 in the Payne's Creek area. The cause of death was ruled as exposure to the cold.

Wider weather episode

A prolonged cold snap, beginning on the 15th, worsened as Arctic high pressure combined with a deep snow pack to produce some of the coldest temperatures since January 1994 during the morning of February 20th. Several locations fell to 20 below zero and colder, temperatures not observed during the month of February in eastern Kentucky since 1899. The prolonged cold temperatures resulted in several counties experiencing widespread water outages due to frozen water lines and frozen intakes caused by ice covered rivers.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 563145. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.