Winter Weather, Scotland
- When
- November 29, 6:00 PM CST to November 30, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Scotland forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 40.453, -92.147 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Low pressure tracked from Missouri to the Great Lakes region on November 29-30, 2008. This was the first snowfall of the winter season and produced widespread accumulations of 2 to 4 inches.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS DVN wrote it up.
Low pressure tracked from Missouri to the Great Lakes region on November 29-30, 2008. This was the first snowfall of the winter season and produced widespread accumulations of 2 to 4 inches.
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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 29, 4:00 AM CST, 14 hours earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 500 AM CST SAT NOV 29 2008 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-301100- BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO- CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL- HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA- JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA- MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL- SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL- WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL- 500 AM CST SAT NOV 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL INTENSIFY WHILE IT DIVES SOUTH FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY. MAINLY LIGHT RAIN WILL SPREAD UP ACROSS SOUTHEAST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEN PROGRESS NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA SATURDAY EVENING. COOLER AIR PUSHING INTO THE AREA WILL CAUSE THE RAIN TO MIX WITH SNOW BY MID EVENING...AND THEN SWITCH OVER TO ALL SNOW BY MIDNIGHT IN MOST AREAS. CURRENT INDICATIONS SUGGEST THAT AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM WILLIAMSBURG...TO MOUNT PLEASANT AND TO CARTHAGE ILLINOIS MAY SEE AN INCH OF SNOWFALL BY DAYBREAK SUNDAY MORNING. AREAS FURTHER TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA WILL RECEIVE A DUSTING TO A HALF INCH. STILL MILD GROUND CONDITIONS AND AIR TEMPERATURES HOVERING AROUND FREEZING OR EVEN THE MID 30S TONIGHT...WILL CAUSE MUCH OF THE INITIAL SNOWFALL TO MELT AND PRODUCE MAINLY WET ROADWAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SNOW WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY BEFORE TAPERING TO FLURRIES LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. CURRENT INDICATIONS SUGGEST THAT ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY OVER MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA... WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR BANDS OF LOCALLY HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES SOUTHEAST OF A FAIRFIELD TO QUAD CITIES TO STERLING ROCK FALLS AXIS. THE BULK OF THE SNOW ACCUMULATION WILL BE ON GRASSY AND ELEVATED SURFACES DURING THE DAY ON SUNDAY... WITH ROADS MAINLY JUST WET WITH GROUND AND AIR TEMPERATURES AT OR ABOVE FREEZING. HOWEVER... AS TEMPERATURES DROP BELOW FREEZING SUNDAY NIGHT SOME ROADS MAY BECOME SLICK AND SNOW COVERED. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF MORE SNOW TO THE OUTLOOK AREA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT...BUT THE SNOWFALL OBSERVER NETWORK SHOULD BE ACTIVATED. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS DURING AND AFTER THE EVENT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. 12/05
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, November 2008
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 137516, 137515.