Ice Storm — Worth, Missouri

2017-01-15 to 2017-01-16 · Worth, Missouri

Event narrative

To finish off a prolonged freezing rain event across northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri light rain lifted north into far northern Missouri causing ice to accumulate through the day on Sunday and overnight into Monday morning. Several trained weather spotters from across northern Missouri reported a quarter inch of ice on all surfaces. Several area roads were ice covered through the day on Sunday and into Monday morning before temperatures warmed above freezing Monday morning.

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 674607. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.