Event narrative (NOAA)
Approximately one quarter inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain was received. Scattered power outages were also noted.||Brown County Chief Deputy Coroner Earl Piper says 93-year-old Thomas Pat McGuire died of hypothermia on Tuesday night outside his rural Morgantown home about 15 miles northeast of Bloomington as freezing rain and strong winds swept the area. He says McGuire broke a window in his front door after locking himself outside of his northern Brown County home, but apparently couldn't reach the lock. Piper says McGuire was not wearing a coat. He says McGuire was apparently walking toward his daughter's nearby home when he succumbed to the cold. McGuire's daughter found his body Wednesday morning. This was reported by WISH TV, Channel 8 in Indianapolis.
Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.