Kansas City, KS
By Eric Anderson
3.25.13
A major storm this weekend is forecast to blanket northern areas of the Midwest with up to a foot of snow and bring deluges and potentially tornados to parts of the South.
On Friday, forecasters said the storm expected to come down from the Rocky Mountains could dump 8 or more inches of snow on Kansas City and could also blanket Indianapolis, Omaha, Neb., and Springfield, Ill.
In Louisiana and Mississippi tornados are possible as the storm moves east. Strong winds and low humidity levels could bring forest and wildfires in parts of New Mexico and west Texas.
This will mark the third major snowstorm in about a month for the Midwest. Weather Service meteorologist Chris Bowman in Pleasant Hill, Mo., said this weekend's storm will be similar to one in late February that brought white-out conditions, dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas, and forced the cancellation of several flights in and out of Kansas City International Airport.
"We're going to have a pretty major late winter-early spring snowstorm," Bowman said. "Right now, with the models trickling in, my preliminary thinking is a good swath of 8 to 12 inches of snow will fall along the I-70 corridor."
"It's fairly rare to get this powerful of a system this late in the year with the potential to drop that much snowfall," he said.
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