Snow from winter storm ends in Kansas City. Here’s how much snow fell across the metro
A winter storm covered the Kansas City area with several inches of snow Wednesday, causing schools to cancel classes in advance and making driving dicey.
While an earlier forecast called for around 5 inches of snow in the metro area, the National Weather Service lowered its snowfall projections overnight to between 3 and 4 inches.
With the last snow ending in the metro, much of the metro received between 2 and 4 inches, with some areas having less, according to a map of early snowfall totals.
As much as 3.5 inches of snow fell in parts of Lenexa, according to snowfall totals reported to the weather service.
Other higher snowfall reports included 2.8 inches in the Brookside area of Kansas City, 2.7 inches in Excelsior Springs and 2.5 inches in Olathe.
Meanwhile, 2.5 inches of snow were reported north of Tonganoxie and Louisburg in Kansas, and around 2 inches were reported in Independence, Basehor, Odessa, and Saline.
Those seeing less than 2 inches included Platte Woods, Oak Grove, Pleasant Hill and Weston.
Meanwhile, 5 inches of snow was reported in Mound City, Missouri.
The weather service asked people on social media to submit snowfall totals in their neighborhoods.
Changing weather conditions affected snowfall totals, the weather service said. While the surface was well saturated with moisture, the necessary lift of air that allows that moisture to rise and then fall as snow had been lost, the weather service said on social media.
By 10:15 a.m., the heavy snow had moved out of the area, with snow totals trending to the lower end of the expected range, the weather service said on Facebook.
The changing conditions led to the weather service canceling the winter storm warning for most of the Kansas City region, replacing it with a winter advisory.
This story was originally published February 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM.
