The National Weather Service has once again pushed the start time for the ice storm warning. This time is has been pushed from noon today to 6 p.m. Saturday for most of northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas.
...ICE STORM EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND... .PERIODS OF SIGNIFICANT ICING ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA THIS WEEKEND...STARTING LATE THIS MORNING ACROSS AREAS MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 AND SPREADING NORTHWARD TOWARDS INTERSTATE 70 THROUGH THE EVENING. PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN WILL OVERSPREAD ALL OF THE AREA BY SATURDAY NIGHT. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ICING IS EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION WILL GRADUALLY CHANGE OVER TO RAIN FROM SOUTH TO NORTH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ...ICE STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM SATURDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST SUNDAY NIGHT... * TIMING...PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN SATURDAY EVENING...WITH PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. THE HEAVIEST PERIODS OF ICE ACCUMULATION WILL BE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. * ICE ACCUMULATIONS...TOTAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE-QUARTER TO AROUND ONE HALF OF AN INCH. * MAIN IMPACT...MAJOR IMPACTS TO TRAVEL ARE LIKELY AS ICE ACCUMULATES ON AREA ROADWAYS. BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WILL BE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO ICE ACCRETION. ICE ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND POWERLINES MAY RESULT IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AN ICE STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. COMMERCE WILL LIKELY BE SEVERELY IMPACTED. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL, KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT, FOOD, AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS AND WINDS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO SNAPPED POWER LINES AND FALLING TREE BRANCHES THAT ADD TO THE DANGER. Areas impacted: ATCHISON KS-ADAIR-BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF ATCHISON, KIRKSVILLE, ST. JOSEPH AIRPORT, ST. JOSEPH, CAMERON, PLATTSBURG, LATHROP, HAMILTON, BRAYMER, POLO, BRECKENRIDGE, CHILLICOTHE, BROOKFIELD, AND MARCELINE 1033 AM CST FRI JAN 13 2017