Name: Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 3, 2000
Start: 2000-01-03T07:00
End: 2000-01-03T15:00
Location: Kansas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 8

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Event by event

8 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Barton

When: January 3, 7:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
Where: Barton forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.479, -98.756 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

From 0700 to 1500 CST, a 40-50 mile wide swath of very heavy, convective snow buried much of central and a small part of south-central Kansas with 6-13 inch snows in only 5-8 hours. The greatest accumulations (10-13 inches) occurred across Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, McPherson and Reno counties. In addition, wind gusts to 47 kts (54 mph) occurred in Great Bend at 0835. To better illustrate the magnitude of the convection, Barton County received as much as 12 inches of snow while northward- neighboring Russell County received only 1-2 inches.

Heavy Snow, Ellsworth

When: January 3, 7:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
Where: Ellsworth forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.697, -98.205 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Rice

When: January 3, 7:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
Where: Rice forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.347, -98.201 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Reno

When: January 3, 7:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
Where: Reno forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.953, -98.086 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, McPherson

When: January 3, 8:00 AM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: McPherson forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.392, -97.648 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Marion

When: January 3, 8:00 AM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: Marion forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.359, -97.097 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Harvey

When: January 3, 9:00 AM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: Harvey forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.043, -97.427 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Snow, Saline

When: January 3, 9:00 AM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: Saline forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.784, -97.650 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Kansas in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Kansas, January 2000

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5127911, 5127912, 5127913, 5127916, 5127914, 5127915, 5127917, 5127918.