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

[Mike Hollingshead]

That's the street here at the motel in Mound City MO. It's really hard to even walk on. New heavy core heading here now. I'm still wondering if there will be an area that finally gets stuck in a heavy zone. Looks like maybe it's wanting to line up now sw-ne...maybe.

I'll try and put updates on my front page. http://www.extremeinstability.com

Just west of here has to be really screwed already.

Edit: Flat out pouring here now and it's 28.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

heh - H - that street you took a photo of has the retirement home where my great grandmother used to live when I was a kid (in Mound City) in the background. I know right where you are ... at least you can walk to McDonalds if you get hungry.

Here are a couple from my front porch right now -

 

[Dustin Wilcox]

Here in Lincoln Moderate rain falling with surface Temps 27-28, trees are already coated, roads just slushy due to all of the salt from Weekends snow fall. If this keeps up (per radar obs it will) SE NE will be in pretty bad shape as well.

 

[Jeff Miller]

Amazing explosion of moisture in Nebraska spreading clear back to Colorado.

OAX has upped snowfall amounts from a trace to 3-6" in NE Nebraska. FSD has raised snowfall amounts from a 50% chance of snow with zero accumulation to 2"+ for KSUX - and looking at radar, thats an understatement to say the least.

The models absolutely did not see this one coming around these parts!! I'm absolutely excited to see what is going to happen around here.

 

[rdale]

I just heard up to .4 inches of ice in the last HOUR in Kansas City..

Doubtful. Official obs showing about 1/10" of an inch, and LSR + Spotternet reports giving storm totals about a quarter of an inch. How are you measuing that?

 

[Rhyuan Janssen]

rdale, TWC said it..as well as two of my local stations...I would assume it would be rather accurate if TWC said it... they could be wrong though...

 

[Chris Allington]

Moderate sleet has given way to light to moderate freezing rain here in West Omaha near my apartment. A nice coating of sleet is turning into glaze as the rain falls. I've only seen one plow salting in about 2 hours and havent had a chance to check the trees yet. Gonna head out and take some pics here in a bit. Probably a trace to 1/10th of an inch here so far.

 

[Chad Cowan]

Manhattan KS is reporting .5" of ice already. Judging by radar trends, I'd say they're in line to get another half inch with this first blob of precip. Just down I-70, Salina appears to have received the most rain thus far. There was 1/8" of ice reported 3 hours ago and they have remained in the convective band for most of that time.

rdale, TWC said it..as well as two of my local stations...I would assume it would be rather accurate if TWC said it... they could be wrong though...

They also show Dr. Grey's hurricane 'forecasts'... soooo... yeah.

 

[Mike Umscheid]

Attached are a couple photos from outside my front door. We have had about a half inch of freezing rain since this afternoon. There is a lull in the action, but round #2 is poised and ready to strike as it's really blossoming on AMA, LBB, FDX (clovis, NM) radars. Accumulation of ice on the trees averages about 1/3" or so.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Quite the training area of heavy freezing rain setting up. Falls City rose to 29, now back to 28. I'm now smack in the middle of this train. Power has already begun to flicker. Something in the back of my head is saying, "you're screwed here for a while". I certainly won't be surprised if this looks like how OKC looks by the time it is over. Oh yeah, there's been one obvious change recently. The south facing window here had been constantly covered in rain, now it stays dry as a bone. Wind has evidently turned a hair. Guessing this temp gradient down low and off the ground is starting to firm up and try to stay in mostly the same place. With a veering low level jet I would think it would.

Trying to capture the pouring rain in the puddles, but it made it look more solid/frozen.

 

[Jeff Miller]

11:58 PM:

Atmosphere saturated at KSUX/SSC and light snow is now starting to fall.

 

[cstrunk]

Just looked at the radar and returns started developing over Ames and I just went outside and it is RAINING! 22F and RAIN.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Storm totals on TOP radar already getting up there. 1.5 inches near here and I'm at the end of the train with all that to come yet and it's only midnight.

 

[cstrunk]

Also, that is quite the impressive new batch of precip forming down in New Mexico and the Texas panhandles. It looks like it is headed over the same areas as before. Time will tell.

 

[Ryan Pfannkuch]

freezing rain changed over to sleet at HSI

Here in Hastings as of 1200 am I measured only 1/8th inch of actual ice glaze from freezing rain...with an additional 1/4 inch of sleet on top of it. Bottom line...its not too icy out there with the sleet putting a rough coating on the initial glaze. Based on 850mb temps from hourly RUC analysis am guessing we will start completing the "wintry trifecta" with a few inches of snow here starting over the next few hours as we completely lose any warm layer. Can't say I'm too disappointed to only be getting a taste of what is going on only 80-150 miles south and east of here where the 850 T is still holding strong in the +5 to +10 territory. Yikes.