Ice Storm in Kansas

Events

563

Deaths

16

Injuries

35

Damage

$203 million

• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 20, 19984 deaths · 3 eventsFreezing drizzle and snow caused icy road conditions and resulted in 4 fatal accidents which killed 4 people. A two vehicle accident occurred on Highway 10 near Eudora. and killed a woman.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, February 27, 20013 deaths · 2 injured · 1 eventSlick roads caused by freezing rain resulted in a 2 vehicle collision that killed 3 people near Vassar.
• Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Kansas, December 23 to 26, 20092 deaths · 6 injured · $77,000 · 17 eventsA double-barreled winter storms affected the Kansas region from the predawn hours on the 23rd through the early morning hours on the 25th.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, March 1, 20012 deaths · 2 eventsSlick roads caused by freezing rain resulted in two fatal accidents just minutes apart.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 21, 19971 death · 2 injured · $70,000 · 23 eventsFreezing rain deposited one-fourth to one-half inches of glaze along interstate 35 east of Emporia and also near the Nebraska border. Other areas received somewhat less accumulations. The ice on the roads resulted in mostly minor accidents.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 4, 19981 death · 2 injured · $40,000 · 19 eventsA mixture of sleet and freezing rain, accompanied by scattered thunderstorms produced rapid accumulations of ice. The heaviest precipitation fell as sleet with local accumulations of 1 to 2 inches.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 10 to 11, 2007$147 million · 16 eventsA devastating freezing rain event unfolded across parts of Southern and Central Kansas from December 10th through the 11th. At the same time an Arctic air mass was moving south into the Central Plains, a mid and upper level storm system was spinning in the Four Corners area.
• Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Kansas, December 8 to 10, 20071 death · 5 injured · 7 eventsAn arctic high pressure was moving south into the Midwest the morning of December 9th which undercut warm moist conditions aloft. This setup resulted in in a prolonged period, roughly 24 hours, of freezing rain and sleet.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, March 8, 19991 death · 5 injured · 2 eventsSnow and sleet combined to make slick road conditions which caused a 2 vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 75 18 miles south of Topeka which injured 5 people, 2 of them critically.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 16, 20031 death · 2 injured · 1 eventIcy roads resulted in slick conditions and caused the driver of a van to lose control. The van slid into a ditch 2 miles northeast of Minneapolis and rolled over killing the female driver and injuring 2 female passengers.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 30 to 31, 2002$25 million · 9 eventsThe same winter storm that all but paralized south-central Kansas hit southeast Kansas early on the morning of the 30th and lasted well into the morning of the 31st.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 5, 20021 death · 9 eventsFreezing rain produced icy roads and caused several accidents during the morning hours in parts of northeast and east central Kansas. A deadly accident occurred 14 miles south of Emporia when a male motorist lost control of his car on an icy road.
• Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Kansas, February 5 to 7, 20191 death · $10,000 · 6 eventsA prolonged freezing drizzle and freezing rain event impacted all of eastern Kansas and western and central Missouri from February 5 until February 7.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 16, 20031 death · 1 eventIcy roads caused the driver of a vehicle to lose control 1 mile east of Minneapolis. The vehicle rolled down the embankment and killed the female driver.
• Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 30 to 31, 2002$9.8 million · 7 eventsA long-lived major ice and snow storm blasted much of eastern Kansas, January 29th through January 31st. Ice accumulations of 1 to 2 inches were observed with snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches in Atchison and Doniphan counties.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, November 29 to 30, 2015$5.6 million · 8 eventsThe main upper-deck wave that had been positioned over the Southern Rockies finally lifted northeast from the Southern to the Central Plains.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, March 16 to 17, 1998$1.2 million · 39 eventsIce storm occurred with anywhere from 1/2 inch of ice accumulation on roadways to several inches of ice accumulations on objects such as radio towers. Every radio station in the area had damage due to the ice accumulation.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 9 to 10, 2007$6.7 million · 3 eventsA major ice storm impacted extreme southeast Kansas during the early morning hours of 9 December. A southwest to northeast narrow band of convection developed from northeast Oklahoma into central Missouri, which became the heaviest axis of ice accumulation.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, March 16 to 17, 1998$1.2 million · 24 eventsIce storm occurred with anywhere from 1/2 inch of ice accumulation on roadways to several inches of ice accumulations of objects. Every radio station in the area had damage due to the ice accumulation and ice falling off the towers.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, January 30 to 31, 2002$2.6 million · 2 eventsA large scale ice storm event developed over southeast Kansas and west central Missouri during the early morning hours of January 30, 2002. Synoptically, a shallow arctic air mass moved through the region dropping surface temperatures in the upper 20s.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 30 to 31, 2006$2.1 million · 5 eventsA wide variety of significant winter weather began impacting portions of north central Kansas. Freezing rain, sleet, and snow began early Saturday morning mainly along highway 183 and spread east during the day.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, March 16 to 17, 1998$1.0 million · 8 eventsLow pressure moving slowly northeast across Oklahoma and southern Kansas induced a strong, sub-freezing northeast surface upslope that, when combined with strong 850-mb warm advection, produced widespread freezing rain across Central and parts of South-Central Kansas.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 21 to 22, 19974 injured · $100,000 · 6 eventsA steady light freezing rain the morning of the 21st left a slippery glaze of ice on area roads and sidewalks. Travel was treacherous on the ice covered roads. The slippery driving conditions were blamed for a two-vehicle collision near Cawker City.
• Ice Storm in Kansas, December 10 to 11, 2007$330,000 · 5 eventsA slow moving storm system, brought a long duration event of freezing|rain to extreme eastern Kansas, December 9 through December 11, 2007.|Cold air was entrenched at the surface, while moisture and warmer air|aloft, streamed north across the cold air.
• Ice Storm and Hail in Kansas, December 26 to 27, 2008$230,000 · 1 in hail · 8 eventsAn interesting weather event took place the evening of the 26th through the morning hours of the 27th as an intense shortwave trough swung through the central plains states.

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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.