HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
Issue Date: 100 PM CST MON DEC 21 2009
Expiration: 600 AM CST TUE DEC 22 2009
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
AN INTENSE...SLOW MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO IMPACT THE AREA
ON TUESDAY...WITH PRECIPITATION CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY. AREAS ALONG
AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 36 MAY SEE SOME LIGHT ICING AS PRECIPITATION
INITIALLY FALLS AS SOME SLEET...FREEZING DRIZZLE OR FREEZING RAIN
TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED
FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.
TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY WARM ABOVE FREEZING FOR THE ENTIRE AREA
ON WEDNESDAY...WITH RAIN EXPECTED AREA-WIDE. RAIN COULD BE HEAVY AT
TIMES WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND
CENTRAL MISSOURI...ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY.
WITH THE GROUND NOW FROZEN IN MOST AREAS...EXCESSIVE RAINFALL COULD
QUICKLY LEAD TO SWOLLEN OR FLOODED RIVERS AND STREAMS.
THE STORM CENTER IS EXPECTED TO PASS OVER THE REGION LATER
THURSDAY...ALLOWING COLD AIR TO SURGE IN FROM EASTERN KANSAS INTO
WESTERN MISSOURI. THIS SHOULD CAUSE A RAPID CHANGEOVER FROM RAIN TO
SNOW...WHICH SHOULD CONTINUE INTO EARLY FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME...IT
APPEARS AS THOUGH THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL LIKELY FALL ACROSS ADJACENT
KANSAS...NEBRASKA AND IOWA...WITH MINOR ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED OVER
WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREAS. WINDY CONDITIONS BEHIND THIS
STORM MAY ALSO CAUSE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW AND BITTERLY COLD WIND
CHILLS AS THE TEMPERATURES FALL SHARPLY.
AGAIN MUCH UNCERTAINTY REMAINS ON THIS SYSTEM...AND THE FORECAST
DESCRIBED ABOVE WILL LIKELY HAVE SOME REVISIONS AS LATER FORECAST
DATA BECOMES AVAILABLE. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND OTHER INTERESTED
PARTIES SHOULD MONITOR FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
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