Winter Storm — Bates, Missouri

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

Event narrative

A major winter storm impacted the region Saturday Jan 4th through late night Sunday Jan 5th. For Bates County, major impacts occurred during the afternoon and evening hours of Jan 4th, when freezing drizzle impacted the area, and also during the morning and afternoon hours of Sunday Jan 5th, when light to moderate snow fell.

Up to 0.5 of ice was reported across portions of the county, which made travel extremely difficult and resulted in some power outages. Then, up to 2 of snow fell across the county on Sunday.

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 1222372. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.