A long duration winter storm (primarily freezing rain) event began during the evening of Nov 26th and continued into Friday Nov 27th.  There was a brief 6-8 hour break in the freezing rain on Friday afternoon into Friday evening.  However another round of freezing rain developed and impacted much of the area on Saturday November 28th and continued through Saturday night into early Sunday morning November 29th.  Light rain and freezing rain was reported on Sunday with more widespread rain, freezing rain and snow reported across north central Kansas Sunday night into early Monday morning on the 30th.  For the sake of clarity this event will be split into 3 episodes, the initial freezing rain and sleet episode that occurred Thursday night through Friday and the longer, larger ice storm episode that occurred late Friday night into early Sunday morning and the final bout of freezing rain that occurred late Sunday night into early Monday.
This episode deals with the first bout of freezing rain and sleet that occurred Thursday night into Friday.
All told, many areas of northeast Kansas received anywhere from one quarter to three quarters of an inch of ice on flat surfaces and on trees and power lines.  The cumulative impacts of repeated bouts of freezing precipitation began to cause tree limbs to break, power lines to fall and associated power outages Saturday through Sunday mainly across Morris, Wabaunsee, Pottawatomie, Riley, Dickinson, Clay, Geary and Lyon counties where the greatest impacts were reported by Sunday into Monday.  Thousands of residents of those counties were without power by Sunday morning.  Total measured ice accumulations from official ASOS sensors for the storm period defined as 6pm Thursday through 6am Monday included:  Salina (proxy for Dickinson CO) 0.59, Manhattan 0.49, Topeka Forbes Field 0.47, Emporia 0.77, Lawrence 0.22, Falls City, NE 0.32 Concordia 0.38.  Those totals reflect a 4 day ice accumulation amount as reported by the ice sensors on ASOS sites.  NWS Topeka issued 3 separate Warnings for this event including one ice storm warning on Sunday morning.

Winter Storm in MARSHALL, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: COOP Observer

COOP observer estimated 0.30 of ice accumulated on flat surfaces around 9am on Friday November 27th. Location was in Beattie in Marshall County.

Winter Storm in NEMAHA, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Law Enforcement

Law Enforcement reported ice on roads county wide and provided a rough estimate of anywhere from .20 to .30 of ice on elevated surfaces including vehicles.  Estimate of ice on vehicle was from Seneca.

Winter Storm in BROWN, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Law Enforcement

Law Enforcement reported ice on roads county wide and provided a rough estimate of anywhere from .20 to .30 of ice on elevated surfaces including vehicles.  Estimate of ice on vehicle was from Hiawatha.

Winter Storm in POTTAWATOMIE, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: COOP Observer

COOP observer measured 0.38 of ice from freezing rain in Blaine.

Winter Storm in RILEY, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: COOP Observer

COOP observer measured 0.25 of ice from freezing rain in Riley Friday morning.

Winter Storm in WABAUNSEE, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: COOP Observer

COOP observer estimated .2 to .3 of ice from freezing rain in Alta Vista Friday morning.

Winter Storm in MORRIS, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: COOP Observer

COOP observer estimated .25 of ice from freezing rain in White City Friday morning.

Winter Storm in DICKINSON, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Estimated one quarter inch of ice on flat surfaces including vehicle 6 NE of Talmage in Dickinson County Friday morning.

Winter Storm in LYON, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 21:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Emergency Manager

Estimated one quarter inch of ice on flat surfaces including vehicles in Americus in northwest Lyon County as of 9am Friday.

Winter Storm in GEARY, KANSAS
From 26-NOV-15 18:00:00 to 27-NOV-15 15:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Emergency Manager

EM from Ft. Riley army base reported an estimated quarter inch of ice accumulation on flat surfaces including vehicles from area of base that is within Geary County just east of Junction City.