ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES WIZ000-ILZ000-MOZ000-MNZ000-IAZ000-KSZ000-NEZ000- . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 12/23/07 0145Z SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678 LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12 0130Z KUSSELSON . LOCATION...WISCONSIN...W ILLINOIS...MISSOURI...SE MINNESOTA... LOCATION...IOWA...KANSAS...NEBRASKA... . ATTN WFOS...MKX...LSX...DVN...ARX...DMX...EAX...OAX...TOP... ATTN RFCS...NCRFC...MBRFC... . EVENT...BAROCLINIC LEAF SNOW BAND LIFTING NORTHEAST... . SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...MAIN UPPER LOW CENTER BEGINNING TO LIFT NORTHEAST INTO E KANSAS DESPITE TROUGH STUBBORNLY HANGING ON THRU E OKLAHOMA. THESE DEVELOPMENTS SHOWING UP THE PAST FEW HRS ON SATELLITE AS COOLER CLOUD TOPS ERODINGWARMING FROM SW TO NE ACROSS OK INTO S KS. AND NOW SOUTHERN EDGE OF BAROCLINIC LEAF ENHANCED COOLER TOPS NOW LIFTING NE ACROSS E CENTRAL KS. COOLER TOPPED CONVECTIVE CELLS MENTIONED IN EARLIER MESSAGE ACROSS E CENTRAL KS NOW HAVE MERGED WITH LEAF ACROSS FAR NE KS/NW MO AND HIGHER SNOW RATES COULD CATCH PART OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW HRS. THIS ALL WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NEWD INTO S CENTRAL IA LATER THIS EVENING AND STEADY MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW ALREADY FALLING OUT AHEAD ACROSS S CENTRAL AND CENTRAL IA AND WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NEWD THRU E IA THIS EVENING AND FIRST PART OF TONIGHT AND INTO WI INCRG SNOWS THERE FROM SW TO NE LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR... . SEE NCEP HPC DISCUSSION AND QPF/S FOR FORECAST. ....NESDIS IS A MEMBER OF 12 PLANET.... . SSD/SAB WEB ADDRESS FOR PRECIP ESTIMATES: HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/PCPN/ ...ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT /PS/PCPN/ . LAT...LON 4399 9096 4286 8953 3841 9405 3855 9540 3977 9557 . NNNN