Slow accumulation of freezing rain culminated in around a quarter inch of ice on surfaces in and around the Kansas City metro.
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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 EAX wrote it up.
Slow accumulation of freezing rain culminated in around a quarter inch of ice on surfaces in and around the Kansas City metro.
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 17, 5:15 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
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</html>Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO 502 AM CST Fri Jan 17 2020 KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-181115- Atchison KS-Miami-Linn KS-Doniphan-Leavenworth-Wyandotte-Johnson KS- Atchison MO-Nodaway-Worth-Gentry-Harrison-Mercer-Putnam-Schuyler- Holt-Andrew-De Kalb-Daviess-Grundy-Sullivan-Adair-Buchanan-Clinton- Caldwell-Livingston-Linn MO-Macon-Platte-Clay-Ray-Carroll-Chariton- Randolph-Jackson-Lafayette-Saline-Howard-Cass-Johnson MO-Pettis- Cooper-Bates-Henry- 502 AM CST Fri Jan 17 2020 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Winter weather will impact the area today with snow transitioning to freezing rain during the morning before finally transitioning to rain this afternoon and evening as temperatures rise above freezing. Snow totals will range from 1 to 3 inches north of Interstate 70 will greater ice amounts of a tenth to a quarter of an inch south of Interstate 70. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Below average temperatures look likely for the weekend into early next week with single digits Sunday through Tuesday morning over most of the area. More detailed information can be accessed at... https://www.weather.gov/eax/hwo
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 ice storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Light freezing rain fell through the morning, culminating in around a quarter inch of freezing rain. Temperatures rose above freezing by the early afternoon.
Light freezing rain fell through the morning, culminating in around a quarter inch of freezing rain. Temperatures rose above freezing by the early afternoon.
Light freezing rain fell through the morning, culminating in around a quarter inch of freezing rain. Temperatures rose above freezing by the early afternoon.
Light freezing rain fell through the morning, culminating in around a quarter inch of freezing rain. Temperatures rose above freezing by the early afternoon.
Light freezing rain fell through the morning, culminating in around a quarter inch of freezing rain. Temperatures rose above freezing by the early afternoon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, January 2020
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 877016, 877017, 877018, 877019, 877020.