Winter Weather — De Kalb, Missouri

2019-12-17 · De Kalb, Missouri

Event narrative

A fatality accident occurred on a snowy roadway a couple days after a large winter storm impacted the region. In this case a vehicle ran out of control into oncoming traffic, striking another vehicle in a semi-head on collision. The occupant of the out of control vehicle passed away and another occupant was seriously injurred.

MHP Police Report: https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/HP68/AccidentDetailsAction?ACC_RPT_NUM=190729581 .

Wider weather episode

Early in the morning on December 15, 2019 light snow began falling, and increased intensity through the day. While this event was a pretty run of the mill winter storm, it did produce 6 to 8 inches across much of the area. While the forecast and ultimately the system focused across areas along and south of the Missouri River, there was a narrow band of snow that formed across far northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri, bringing a few extra counties north and east of the Missouri River into the higher amounts of snowfall.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 867694. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.