Winter Storm — Nodaway, Missouri

2025-01-04 to 2025-01-06 · Nodaway, Missouri

Event narrative

A major winter storm impacted the region Saturday Jan 4th through late night Sunday Jan 5th/early morning Monday Jan 6th. For Nodaway County, major impacts began during the morning and afternoon hours of Sunday Jan 5th when heavy snow began.

By the end of the snow on Sunday evening, Maryville reported 12 of snow, as did Conception. 10.2 of snow was reported in Ravenwood, and 9.3 of snow was reported in Skidmore.

The AWOS at Maryville Northwest Missouri Regional Airport began reporting moderate snow with visibility below one mile at 9:30 am on Sunday Jan 5th, with heavy snow and quarter mile visibility from 11 am through 5 pm. The only thing keeping this from meeting blizzard criteria was that wind gusts typically remained around 25 mph.

Wider weather episode

On January 4, 2025, a potent mid latitude extratropical cyclone began impacting the region. First, this brought freezing drizzle to the area on the afternoon and evening hours of Jan 4th, with major impacts to roadways across the KC metro. Freezing rain transitioned to sleet, and then finally snow late evening on the 4th and into the morning hours of the 5th. Heavy snow paired with wind gusts up to 35 to 40 mph yielded blizzard conditions across the region. Snow finally came to an end from west to east late Sunday (Jan 5th) night into early Monday (Jan 6th) morning.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1222172. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.