ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES MOZ000-OKZ000-KSZ000- . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 12/26/07 1818Z SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678 LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12 1800Z KUSSELSON . LOCATION...MISSOURI...OKLAHOMA...KANSAS... . ATTN WFOS...SGF...EAX...TSA...TOP...ICT...OUN... ATTN RFCS...MBRFC...ABRFC... . EVENT...BAROCLINIC LEAF AND VORT SNOW... . SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...SMALL VORT SPINNING THRU C OK VIC OF CANADIAN COUNTY AND JUST OUT AHEAD STEADY SNOW WITH BURSTS OF MDT/HVY WERE OCCURRING IN AREAS LIKE CLEVELAND..POTTAWATOMIE...OKLAHOMA COUNTIES WHILE WEAK DEFORMATION SEEN TO THE NORTH FROM N CENTRAL OK NEWD INTO KS. THAT DEFORMATION BAND WAS THINNING/SHRINKING BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN WHOLE AREA OF SNOW IS DECREASING...WITH NARROWING LAST GASP SNOWS WERE FOCUSING GARFIELD(OK) TO SUMNER TO CHASE COUNTY (KS). ALSO IT APPEARED NEW DEFOMATION BAND/ZONE WAS TRYING TO FORM JUST TO THE EAST OUT AHEAD OF OLD/WEAKEN BAND AT LEAST IN SE KS THAT MAY FORM THE NEW BAND FURTHER NORTH AND NE AS MOISTURE FROM LOWER MS VALLEY CONTINUES TO GET INVOLVED. MOST OF THE DEEP MOISTURE AND TRANSPORT GOING INTO ARKANSAS...BUT CONVEYOR BELT LIFT WITH WESTERN FRINGES OF THIS DEEP MOISTURE WERE GETTING BACK TO OK AND KS. AND NOW THAT FRINGE OF DEEP MOISTURE WAS BEGINNING TO EDGE NORTH THRU C AND S MO AND THIS SHOULD EVENTUALLY HELP THOSE NEW DEFORMATION BANDS THAT FORM LATER THIS AFTERNOON IN COLD AIR ALREADY IN NW MO OR SOON TO BE ESTABLISHED IN W CENTRAL MO. 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 3921 9549 3878 9338 3510 9543 3531 9721 . NNNN