Dense Fog in Missouri, December 19 to 20, 2017

Name: Dense Fog in Missouri, December 19 to 20, 2017
Start: 2017-12-19T21:00
End: 2017-12-20T02:00
Location: Missouri

December 19 to 20, 2017 · NWS PAH · 5 events in 5 counties and zones

S. Highway 60.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

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 PAH wrote it up.

Widespread dense fog blanketed parts of southeast Missouri, mainly along and south of U.S. Highway 60. Visibility was reduced to one-quarter mile or less from Sikeston and Poplar Bluff south. The dense fog occurred in the vicinity of a weak surface high that extended from northwest to southeast across the lower Ohio Valley.

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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 19, 8:04 PM CST, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 8:04 PM CST, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 19, 8:12 PM CST, 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 19, 7:20 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Event by event

5 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.

Dense Fog, Mississippi

When: December 19, 9:00 PM CST to December 20, 2:00 AM CST
Where: Mississippi forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 36.828, -89.291 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Dense Fog, New Madrid

When: December 19, 9:00 PM CST to December 20, 2:00 AM CST
Where: New Madrid forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 36.595, -89.652 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Dense Fog, Scott

When: December 19, 9:00 PM CST to December 20, 2:00 AM CST
Where: Scott forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 37.053, -89.568 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Dense Fog, Stoddard

When: December 19, 9:00 PM CST to December 20, 2:00 AM CST
Where: Stoddard forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 36.856, -89.944 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Dense Fog, Butler

When: December 19, 9:00 PM CST to December 20, 2:00 AM CST
Where: Butler forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 36.716, -90.407 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Dense Fog: Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2017 Every state in 2017 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, December 2017

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 726582, 726583, 726584, 726585, 726586.