The transition from Winter to Spring brought several periods of rain, and the heaviest snow storm of the season to the Missouri Ozarks and southeast Kansas during the month of March. Precipitation totals for the month ranged from around two inches over west central Missouri to nearly four inches in the southwest corner of Missouri. Most areas received around an inch below their normal precipitation for the month of March. The first significant round of precipitation occurred on the 3 rd and 4 th as a strong upper level storm system moved from northeast Oklahoma to southeast Missouri.
Widespread rainfall amounts over one-half inch fell across the region.
A few locations in southwest Missouri received nearly one and a half inches over the two-day period. Dry conditions prevailed across the region through the 9 th , with the exception of scattered showers and thunderstorms that moved across southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri early on the 8 th , which produced rainfall amounts of less than a quarter of an inch. During the evening of the 10 th and the morning of the 11 th , the season's most significant snow storm moved into the Ozarks region. The storm system developed over the southern plains and tracked into southern Missouri late on the 10 th , producing widespread rain that changed to snow early on the 11 th . Snow amounts of 5 inches or more occurred along and north of Interstate 44, from Pittsburg Kansas to Rolla.