WINTER STORM NOW 12/08-11/2007: KS, OK, NE, MO, IA, CO, among others

[Kevin Crawmer]

I am in Troy, MO (NW of STL) and we have had freezing rain off and on all day and it has not been impressive on radar at all. What is somewhat encouraging is that temps have risen 2 degrees to 32 over the past couple of hours. Just 30 or so miles north in Pittsfield, IL it is 23. Precip is starting to develop to the SW, so the temps can keep rising as far as I am concerned. I LOVE ELECTRICITY!

As previously mentioned, the worst is probably yet to come.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Freezing drizzle here with snow mixed in. Enough to re-coat the ground and the snow that fell earlier in the week. It's a nice night to be inside -

 

[Joey Ketcham]

My weather station is reporting 28 degrees here in Pittsburg, KS.

Rain is starting to develop all around us, and some areas are starting to get slick from rain/drizzle that had already fallen. It should start getting fun tonight.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

I was sitting here thinking, damn it is cold here for 11 pm, at 10 degrees. Then I looked north! It's -17 in Grand Forks ND and -24 in nw MN! Sucks to be you Aaron!

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Ice Storm Now NE/OK

The temp 29 in Owasso with thunder storm in progress with heavy freezing rain.
http://www.mesonet.org/public/current.html.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=SGF&product=NCR&overlay=11111111&loop=yes

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/sfc_ict.gif


That there is a bit nuts.

MD out for OK.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md2190.html

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

Thats pretty hefty convection lighting up all over OK and SW MO, looks as though the convection over Tulsa or just to the NW of Tulsa is nicely oreiented SW-NE and training over the same area, no doubt those who end up under that training convection will see rapid accumalations of ice.


For fun loop Tulsa's Composite Radar

 

[Steve Miller]

Moore, OK: 32-degrees, moderate rain, pea-size hail covering the ground, lightning.
This is December!

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

That small area in se KS is screwed! Jesus. I wonder what kind of warming, this area about to get nailed, will recieve the next few days before the main onslaught. I imagine those nailed tonight will warm and miss the next couple bouts.

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Getting light freezing rain at the moment, temp at 28 degrees here in Pittsburg, KS (Crawford County). My steps are completely iced over now.

I would not be surprised if we start seeing power outages as early as later tonight...

Edited to add: as Jeff said in his post below.. we have some pretty good lightning and thunder. Was outside a bit ago and it was lightning and thundering pretty good.

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

Tulsa ICE Storm NOW!!!

Storms with 50 DBZ core passed over my house ice is now glazing everything.
Based on convective trends lightning rapidly increasing from Lawton to Joplin. The INX-TLX radar in the last hour shows rain totals .25-.50 in the last hour. ICE STORM WARNING?

 

[Jeff Piotrowski]

ICE STORM WARNING TULSA NOW!!!

NWS has iussed ICE STORM WARNING FOR TULSA AREA.

IN OKLAHOMA...
OSAGE...WASHINGTON...NOWATA...PAWNEE...TULSA...ROGERS...CREEK...
OKFUSKEE...OKMULGEE...WAGONER...MUSKOGEE.

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED
ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR THIS EVENING...
AND THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION EXTENDS SOUTHWESTWARD INTO
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. TEMPERATURES HAVE CONTINUED TO FALL
WITH THE FREEZING LINE MAKING STEADY PROGRESS SOUTHWARD...
AND AS THIS OCCURS...FREEZING RAIN HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS
PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

ICE ACCUMULATION TOTALS WILL LIKELY VARY WIDELY...HOWEVER
ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ONE HALF INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE ON
ELEVATED SURFACES. AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO COOL THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING...ROADWAYS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY
TO MAINTAIN AN ICE COATING. UTILITY OPERATIONS ARE EXPECTED
TO BECOME INCREASINGLY STRESSED AS ICE LOADS ON POWER LINES.

 

[David Poch]

Moore, OK: 32-degrees, moderate rain, pea-size hail covering the ground, lightning.
This is December!

Thunder and cold rain here in South OKC. It started about 5 minutes ago. No hail here just north of Moore.

David

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

Per RUC Mesoanalysis the warm air advection over an extremely cold surface is quite impressive. Its got 850-700mb warmed to above freezing as far North as the Topeka and KC Metro area where surface temps are in the teens, definitely going to be a rough ride for many in E KS & W MO tonight, as Mike hints at, those who manage to get in on tonight’s action w/o warming before the next round on Mon/Tues will really be in trouble.

Storm estimated Totals already pushing 1" in that Narrow band just west of Tulsa extending SW-NE near the Nowata area, with a lot more precip still on the way

 

[Doug Lee]

Had some rain here in Kiefer earlier, nothing frozen.

Oklahoma Mesonet data shows the freezing line through here, and running from Lawton to south of Joplin. Soil temps still in the upper 40's, so I don't expect to see much icing on the ground around here for a while.