Winter Weather — Nodaway, Missouri

2017-01-13 to 2017-01-14 · Nodaway, Missouri

Event narrative

A light icing event occurred overnight Friday night (Jan 13) into early Saturday morning (Jan 14). Nearby observations in Falls City, Nebraska and Clarinda, Iowa did not report any freezing precipitation, but Kansas City International Airport did report a few hours of freezing rain late Friday night into Saturday morning. The roads in Nodaway County were reported covered in ice when a fatal vehicle accident occurred early Saturday morning. A 22 year old male slid off the road and struck a fence before rolling several times. The driver was ejected from the vehicle while not wearing a seat belt, and was pronounced dead at the scene once state troopers arrived. That accident occurred on Route E, north of 220th Street near Ravenwood around 4:30 am. While there was a more significant ice storm for Nodaway County a couple days later this event has been separated due to a prolonged period of dry weather between this event and the ice storm that occurred on Sunday, January 15.

Wider weather episode

Freezing rain started on Friday January 13 across portions of southern Kansas and southern Missouri. Freezing rain fell across a fairly narrow corridor on Friday night into Saturday morning across that area, causing icing to occur. After a mostly dry day on Saturday, throughout the day on Sunday the rain moved north through the Kansas City Metro area, but did not create much in the way of ice accumulations, with maybe .10 of ice at the most. By the time the rain moved into northern Missouri it started accumulating more ice. Across numerous counties in northern Missouri several spotters reported a quarter inch of ice. While the ice in the KC Metro area did not result in an official ice storm, there were still numerous vehicle accidents as a result of the light icing. On Friday night and Saturday night vehicle fatalities occurred. The first on Friday night occurred in Platte County near mile marker 20 on Interstate 29. The second fatality occurred in Nodaway county near Ravenwood. Both accidents were the result of icy road surfaces.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 666733. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.