Banded Snow Event - January 15th, 2015

Overview

Pockets of sleet and snow began to overspread southeastern Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks Wednesday evening as an upper level disturbance approached from the northwest. Some locations across primarily southwestern Missouri saw sleet accumulations of up to two-tenths of an inch Wednesday evening.

A narrow band of heavier snow then developed across portions of the eastern Missouri Ozarks late Wednesday night with the snow quickly coming to an end by early Thursday morning. 1-3" of snow fell in a corridor from around Lebanon and Hartville, east into the Salem area.

Snowfall Amounts

Radar

Radar:

Animated radar loop from 145 AM through 645 AM which shows the narrow band of snow that developed across eastern portions of the Missouri Ozarks. The purple and especially the white colors indicate areas of heavy snowfall on radar. There was a thin layer of dry air in place near the surface as this snow band developed, so it took about a half hour for snow to saturate the lower atmosphere and begin reaching the ground even beneath these heavier radar echoes. The weaker bands of snow (yellows and oranges) took even longer to saturate lower portions of the atmosphere. Some locations never did receive any snowfall below these weaker radar echoes.

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