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Ice Storm in Boyle, Kentucky

Ice Storm February 10, 2021 – February 11, 2021 · Boyle, Kentucky

What the National Weather Service wrote

A quarter inch of ice accumulated in Danville, KY.

The wider storm

An arctic airmass was centered over the northern Plains, and Kentucky and southern Indiana were positioned directly along a volatile boundary between the arctic air mass and a warm and moist tropical airmass associated with the Gulf of Mexico. The vertical temperature profile was ideal for the formation of freezing rain. The arctic air wedged itself beneath a warm and moist layer aloft. As energy associated with the jet stream passed over the Ohio Valley, a mix of wintry precipitation occurred. A large swath of freezing rain occurred, stretching mainly west to east across Kentucky.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 942555. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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