Ice Storm — Custer, Oklahoma

2017-01-14 to 2017-01-15 · Custer, Oklahoma

Event narrative

Slick roads resulted in a car wreck including one fatality and a multi-car pileup. Additionally, electric co-ops reported over 900 outages with an estimated $28K worth of damages.

Wider weather episode

An upper low coming onto the Pacific coast combined with abundant gulf moisture to produce scattered showers on the 13th, transitioning to widespread showers on the 14th and 15th. Temperature hovered near and just below freezing across parts of northern, western, and central Oklahoma allowing much of the precipitation to come in the form of freezing rain. Power outages in the CWA totaled to near 20,000 (mostly in northwest Oklahoma).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 668712. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.