Photos: Deadly Ice, 3 Inches of Sleet!

UPDATE:I have added some cities this evening to the list of heavy sleet and ice below. Some power outage reports:

Missouri: 200,000 (ColumbiaMissourian)
Saint Louis, MO: 125,000 (CNN)
Illinois and Missouri: 120,000 (Belleville.com)
Springfield, MO: 65,000 (News-Leader)
Oklahoma: 40,000 (TulsaWorld)

ORIGINAL POST:

Four people were killed in traffic accidents and flights have been cancelled in the Plains due to this weekend's ice and sleet storm (Fox News & others).

Ice on a flower bud, taken yesterday in Pekin, Illinois
by AccuWeather.com Weather Photo Gallery user gator.

The first shot of ice is fading in the Ohio Valley this morning as it starts up again in Oklahoma. Check out the radar animation of the storm so far.

THE ICE (PINK) LAST NIGHT AT 7PM (LOOP)

Here are some of the incredible reports coming out of the first shot in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma:

NOTICE: This newer list supercedes the one below.

HEAVY SLEET (ICE PELLETS):

Sedalia, MO: 3.0" Sleet
Near Parsons, KS: 2.5" Sleet*
Near Lowry City, MO: 2.1" Sleet*
Many Locations in MO, KS: 2.0" Sleet
Payson, IL: 2.0" Sleet*
Vinita, OK: 2.0" Sleet*

Don Jones, of Columbia, Mo., cleans off his truck as a winter storm grows closer to Columbia, Mo., on Friday Jan. 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Dan Gill)

HEAVY FREEZING RAIN (ICE / GLAZE):

Laomi, IL: 1.0" Freezing Rain*
Dixon, MO: 1.0" Freezing Rain
Lamar, MO: 1.0" Freezing Rain
Warsaw, MO: 1.0" Freezing Rain
Fort Scott, MO: 1.0" Freezing Rain

*Added this evening to this morning's list.

More than an inch of sleet is rare and even a tenth of an inch of rain is more than enough to make roads slick and down power lines. More than a half of inch of freezing rain is rare.

LIVE RADARS TO WATCH TODAY (Click To Zoom):

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