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Snow Totals and Road Updates: Winter Storm Hits The Ozarks

Snow totals across the Ozarks range from two inches to 12 from a winter storm that hit Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, knocking out power to 38-thousand customers in southern Missouri.

The hardest hit counties are in south central Missouri around Carter, Oregon, Shannon and Reynolds County.

There are also outages from near Lebanon southwest to Stone County, with major outages reported in Arkansas.

As of 6:00 a.m., many highways in southwest Missouri, especially those south of I-44, remain snow covered and hazardous.

Get updated road conditions here with the MoDOT Traveler Information Map.

Main roads in the Springfield area that have been plowed are mainly just wet.

We’ve had several wrecks around the Springfield area, including a couple of crashes along Interstate 44.

You will need to take some time to brush snow off your vehicles parked outside, but it’s mainly a wet, fluffy snow that comes off easily.

We’ve had reports of around six inches of snow in the Springfield metro area.

Here are snowfall totals from across the Ozarks reported to the National Weather Service:

Osage Beach: 2.0 inches

Highlandville: 4.0 inches

Mansfield: 4.0 inches

Rolla: 4.0 inches

Ava: 4.5 inches

Strafford: 5.0 inches

Rockbridge: 5.5 inches

Lebanon: 7.0 inches

Willow Springs: 6.0 inches

Nixa: 8.0 inches

Lanton (Howell County): 12.0 inches

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