Winter Storm in Missouri, January 4 to 5, 2005

Name: Winter Storm in Missouri, January 4 to 5, 2005
Start: 2005-01-04T22:00
End: 2005-01-05T10:00
Location: Missouri

January 4 to 5, 2005 · NWS EAX · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

1/4" to 3/4" of ice was reported across these areas, mixed at times with sleet and snow. Accumulations reached 2 to 4 inches by the end of the event.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.

1/4" to 3/4" of ice was reported across these areas, mixed at times with sleet and snow. Accumulations reached 2 to 4 inches by the end of the event.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 4, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
830 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005

...MAJOR WINTER STORM IN PROGRESS ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS INTO WESTERN
MISSOURI...

.MESOSCALE DISCUSSION...
WATCHING A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM EVOLVE THIS EVENING.
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FIELD AND STORM SPOTTERS INDICATING A CHANGE
OVER TO SLEET FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF KANSAS CITY...NORTHEAST THROUGH
CHILLICOTHE TO NEAR KIRKSVILLE. COLDER AIR THAN ANTICIPATED WORKING
IN THIS EVENING...SO HAVE CHANGED HEADLINES TO A WINTER STORM
WARNING FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF US HIGHWAY 36...TO BETTER
REFLECT STORM CHARACTERISTICS. WILL BE LOOKING AT REFINING SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS IN NORTHERN MISSOURI AS A RESULT OF THE COLDER
THERMODYNAMIC PROFILE...AND AMENDING FORECAST ACCORDINGLY.

FURTHER SOUTH...HAVE ALREADY SEEN ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A QUARTER
INCH OR MORE FROM KANSAS CITY NORTHEAST. SECOND WAVE OF
PRECIPITATION EXPLODING IN WEST TEXAS WILL BE OF CONCERN LATE
TONIGHT...AND IS HANDLED WELL IN THE GOING FORECAST.  TEMPERATURES
CONTINUE TO HOLD ABOVE FREEZING FROM BUTLER TO BOONVILLE...AND FLASH
FLOOD WARNINGS HANDLING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN THESE LOCATIONS.

HUDSON

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...ICE STORM...WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT FOR
THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY...SEE STLWSWEAX FOR DETAILS.

MO...ICE STORM...WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT FOR
THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY...SEE STLWSWEAX FOR DETAILS.

FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR AREAS ALONG A LINE FROM WARRENSBURG TO
FAYETTE FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT.

WFO EAX

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 4, 12:48 PM CST, 9 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1248 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-051200-

...A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM REMAINS ON TRACK TO AFFECT THE REGION
LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL AND
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN WILL SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK
AREA...WITH SOME SLEET POSSIBLY MIXED IN ACROSS FAR NORTHWEST
MISSOURI...LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. ANOTHER ROUND OF
FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW WILL ARRIVE LATE TONIGHT INTO THE
MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY. BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...AREAS ALONG A SWATH
EXTENDING FROM KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH EASTWARD THROUGH MACON AND
KIRKSVILLE CAN EXPECT AN INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION. AREAS NORTHWEST OF
THIS SWATH WILL LIKELY SEE UP TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATION
OVERTOP OF A QUARTER INCH OF ICE...WHILE AREAS TO THE SOUTH CAN
EXPECT AROUND A QUARTER INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION.

ADDITIONALLY...HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE
EVENING HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI...WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE
CURRENTLY JUST ABOVE FREEZING...WILL LIKELY RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN
FLOODING ALONG AREA RIVERS IN STREAMS...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A
LINE FROM WARRENSBURG TO FAYETTE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

AFTER THE IMPENDING WINTER STORM EXITS THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON
HOURS WEDNESDAY...NO ADDITIONAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH
TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

&&

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE
INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT (LOWER CASE)
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/EAX OR HTTP://WEATHER.GOV.

SEAMAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 4, 8:06 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
806 PM CST TUE JAN 04 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 PM     ICE STORM        ST JOSEPH               39.76N 94.85W
01/04/2005                   BUCHANAN           MO   AMATEUR RADIO

            .25 SLEET ACCUMULATION

&&

LEINS

Local storm report, Jan 4, 8:09 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
809 PM CST TUE JAN 04 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0808 PM     ICE STORM        2 NW ST JOSEPH          39.78N 94.87W
01/04/2005                   BUCHANAN           MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            .50 INCH SLEET ACCUMULATION

&&

LEINS

Local storm report, Jan 4, 8:35 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
835 PM CST TUE JAN 04 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0835 PM     ICE STORM        TRENTON                 40.08N 93.60W
01/04/2005                   GRUNDY             MO   AMATEUR RADIO

            .50 INCH ICE ACCUMULATION. 3-5 INCH DIAMETER TREE
            BRANCHES DOWN.

&&

LEINS

Local storm report, Jan 4, 8:38 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
838 PM CST TUE JAN 04 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0837 PM     ICE STORM        LEAVENWORTH             39.32N 94.92W
01/04/2005                   LEAVENWORTH        KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN, NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES, SLICK
            ROADS THROUGHOUT COUNTY.

&&

LEINS

Local storm report, Jan 4, 8:45 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
845 PM CST TUE JAN 04 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0841 PM     ICE STORM        5 ENE EDWARDSVILLE      39.10N 94.73W
01/04/2005                   WYANDOTTE          KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            OCCASIONAL POWER OUTAGES/SURGES. NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS ALONG
            INTERSTATE 435. LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN ACROSS COUNTY.

&&

LEINS

Local storm report, Jan 4, 9:19 PM CST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
919 PM CST TUE JAN 04 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0917 PM     ICE STORM        RICHMOND                39.28N 93.97W
01/04/2005                   RAY                MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            .25 INCH ICE ACCUMULATION, MAINLY ON TREES.

0917 PM     ICE STORM        POLO                    39.55N 94.04W
01/04/2005                   CALDWELL           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            3-6 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN

0917 PM     ICE STORM        PLATTSBURG              39.56N 94.46W
01/04/2005                   CLINTON            MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            .25 - .50 INCH ICE ACCUMULATION. 3-6 INCH DIAMETER TREE
            LIMBS DOWN.

&&

LEINS

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

3 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Adair

When: January 4, 10:00 PM CST to January 5, 10:00 AM CST
Where: Adair forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.191, -92.601 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Storm, Schuyler

When: January 4, 10:00 PM CST to January 5, 10:00 AM CST
Where: Schuyler forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.470, -92.521 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Storm, Sullivan

When: January 4, 10:00 PM CST to January 5, 10:00 AM CST
Where: Sullivan forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.211, -93.111 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Winter Storm: A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, January 2005

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: 5439082, 5439083, 5439084.