Numerous remaining schools and several churches and businesses also closed. The brunt of the storm arrived on a holiday, Martin Luther King Jr Day and several business and schools were already scheduled to be closed for the day. There were no widespread, long lasting power outages, and and overall tree/power line damage was relatively minimal. Roads were very slick, though main roads were pre-treated.

Surface temperatures hovering right around the freezing mark and an overall lack of winds kept this event from having a signficantlyВ worse impact than it did. Far southeastern portions of the coverage area saw 0.5' or more. Much of the NWS Hastings coverage area (click HERE for a map) saw at least 0.10' of ice accumulation, with locations roughlyВ east of a line from Greeley to Beaver City (including north central Kansas) reporting 0.25' or more of ice accumulation. Any sleet or snow accumulation was minimal.

During the latter portions of the event Monday afternoon, enough cold air started pushing east into the area that the precipitation type briefly switched over to sleet/snow before moving out. Thanks to a nose of warmer air just off the surface and freezing temperatures at the surface, the predominant precipitation type during this event was freezing rain. A strong, slow moving upper level low pressure slid northeast from the New Mexico-Texas-Mexico border region on Sunday, January 15th and Monday, January 16th, bringing the most significant icing event in 10 years to south central Nebraska and north central Kansas.

January 5 2017 ice storm carthage ms