Mid-December 2007 North American winter storms

Mid-December 2007 North American winter storms

Ice on a tree in Kansas City
Type	Ice storms Winter storms Tornado outbreak
Formed	December 8, 2007
Dissipated	December 18, 2007
Lowest pressure	974 millibars (28.8 inHg)
Tornadoes confirmed	9
Max. rating1	EF2 tornado
Maximum snowfall or ice accretion	24 inches (61 cm) of snow (Northern Park City, Utah), 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) of ice (Pittsburg, Kansas)[1]
Fatalities	At least 64, including 38 from ice storm[2] and 1 from tornadoes
Damage	Not yet known, $3.16 million in tornado outbreak
Power outages	>1.68 million
Areas affected	Central and Eastern North America
Part of the Winter storms of 2007–08 1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale

The Mid-December 2007 North American winter storms were a series of two winter storms that affected much of central and eastern North America, from December 8 to December 18, 2007. The systems affected areas from Oklahoma to Newfoundland and Labrador with freezing rain, thunderstorms, sleet, snow, damaging winds, and blizzard-like conditions in various areas. The first two storms produced copious amounts of ice across the Midwestern United States and Great Plains from December 8 to December 11, knocking out power to approximately 1.5 million customers from Oklahoma north to Iowa. The second storm moved northeast, producing heavy snow across New York and New England. A third storm was responsible for a major winter storm from Kansas to the Canadian Maritimes, bringing locally record-breaking snowfalls to Ontario, an icestorm across the Appalachians, and thunderstorms and 9 tornadoes to the Southeastern United States.

The ice storms were responsible for at least 22 deaths across three states.^[2][3] At least 25 additional deaths were blamed on the December 15–16 Midwest and Eastern snowstorm, and its aftermath across six US States and three Canadian provinces; 1 additional death was caused by the severe weather outbreak in the Southeast.