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 Sunday night into early Monday.
This episode deals with the second larger ice storm event.
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.

Ice Storm in DICKINSON, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 09:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Utility Company

Westar Energy reported numerous power outages across the county affecting over one thousand people.  Outages were due to downed tree limbs on power lines and power lines failing due to around one half to three quarters of an inch of ice Sunday morning.

Ice Storm in MORRIS, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Utility Company

Westar Energy reported numerous power outages across the county affecting over one thousand people.  Outages were due to downed tree limbs on power lines and power lines failing due to around one half to three quarters of an inch of ice Sunday morning. County dispatch also reported tree limbs down county wide due to ice accumulation as of early Sunday morning.

Ice Storm in POTTAWATOMIE, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Law Enforcement

Reports of one half to around three quarters of an inch of ice accumulation on elevated surfaces including trees and vehicles.  Reports of large limbs down across the county and power outages from dispatch.

Ice Storm in JACKSON, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Law Enforcement

Several reports of power outages on Potawatomie Indian Reservation in Jackson County along with tree limbs down due to ice accumulation.

Ice Storm in GEARY, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Utility Company

Westar Energy reports that over two thousand residents were without power in the Junction City, Fort Riley and Manhattan areas early Sunday morning due to downed power lines from ice accumulation of one half to three quarters of an inch.

Ice Storm in DICKINSON, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Public

Ice accumulation on trees and vehicles between one quarter to one half inch of ice around Chapman in Dickinson County early Sunday morning. Large tree limbs were reported to be down in Chapman.

Ice Storm in MORRIS, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: COOP Observer

COOP observer reports branches down due to ice accumulation estimated to be around three quarters of an inch on branches and elevated surfaces early Sunday morning from White City.

Ice Storm in DICKINSON, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Branches began breaking shortly after midnight around Abilene with at least a few power lines noted down due to tree limbs breaking due to ice accumulation.

Ice Storm in WABAUNSEE, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: NWS Employee

NWS techs visited the radar site in Wabaunsee County and measured one half to three quarters of an inch of radial ice accumulation on elevated surfaces that occurred through early Sunday morning. This observation was from 2 miles east of Alma.

Ice Storm in LYON, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 07:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Emergency Manager

EM reported numerous large tree limbs down due to ice accumulation throughout the county by Sunday morning.  Estimates of anywhere from one quarter to as much as three quarters of an inch of ice accumulation across the county Sunday morning from the long duration event that began late Friday night and lasted on and off through Sunday morning.  Sporadic power outages were also reported.

Ice Storm in RILEY, KANSAS
From 27-NOV-15 22:00:00 to 29-NOV-15 08:00:00 (CST-6)
Reported by: Utility Company

Westar Energy reported numerous power outages across the county affecting over one thousand people.  Outages were due to downed tree limbs on power lines and power lines failing due to around one half to three quarters of an inch of ice Sunday morning.