<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;line-height:130%"> Kansas City, KS</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By Eric Anderson<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">3.25.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>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.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">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.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">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.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">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.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">"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."<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">"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.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/storm-bring-foot-snow-midwest-18793056#.UUzo_ld3esZ" target="_new">Storm Update </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
