System neglected and huge storm Snarls holiday travel

A powerful storm system generated rare December tornado outbreak in the South, fallen crushing ice and snow in the Midwest and brought unusually warm temperatures from the Atlantic to the city of New York. Advises the meteorologist Mike Seidel.By M. Alex Johnson and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC NewsIcy rain, snow and ice jostling in and around patches unusually warm created a bizarre mosaic of weather conditions over dozens of States Sunday, wreaking havoc for millions of holiday travelers.The massive storm, covering at least 35 States, took a little bit of everything:Heavy snow from Oklahoma to Wisconsin - both about 10 inches predicted through Sunday.Flash flood watches in 11 States from Texas to New York.Ice warnings of storm in parts of Northern New England. Record in other parts of tornado Northeast.Possible, with the greatest risk on Monday from Texas to Tennessee."What really worries me about this tornado-wise situation is one, people do not usually expect tornadoes in December," said Greg Forbes of The Weather Channel. "Two, going to be in some cases further north that people expect."The Midwest, meanwhile, was out another major snow dump. Parts of Iowa had recorded 6 inches by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, and dangerously cold was moving behind him to block on the dangers of ice.With wind chills as low as minus-25 in some counties of waiting overnight, Alex Mihalakis and its 6 anos-viejo - son, Jace, were helping to clear sidewalks, cars and driveways in Dubuque for people who could not leave."We can buy anyone anything, so we decided to help them with this Nevada," said Mihalakis NBC KWWL of Waterloo Station.Jeffrey Phelps / APA police officer key a car that split on Sunday along the highway 172 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. A winter storm was causing havoc through several States during the weekend."We have had very bad conditions weather two weeks before Christmas," said Christopher Dolce, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. "There has been a considerable amount of winter storms all the way back to the days before Thanksgiving and lots of travel woes continuing in December."About 665 flights had been cancelled and 5,750 more were delayed across the country at 9:30 P.M. on Sunday, according to the aviation FlightAware.com tracking website.Many were inside or outside of major centres and international of Houston Bush International, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver and Chicago or ' Hare Airport, where 136 flights had been cancelled.Get the latest news of the time and your local forecastThe weather was suspected in at least eight dead, among them that of a driver who was killed on Saturday afternoon on an icy Highway near Kansas City, Missouri, police said, and two people in Mississippi who died as a result of hurricane force winds.Five people were also drowned in Kentucky, Cincinnati NBC station WLWT reported - three in a car in Bardstown, which came to be submerged in the Rolling Fork River and another man in Carroll County, whose vehicle overturned on top of him after being trapped in a stream. A fifth body was recovered from a vehicle abandoned in a ditch flooded in Ballard County.The system of large storms arose in the Midwest on Friday. On Saturday night, a line of storms extended from southern Louisiana to Indiana, and at least two suspected tornadoes hit Arkansas, injuring at least five people.A man in Rena Lara, Mississippi, was killed Saturday when wind capsized his mobile home.And another person died on Saturday when it hit a tree fallen on the highway in Jasper County, losing the car driving. A woman in the car was critically wounded and taken to hospital.Meanwhile, a great ice storm was running towards the State of New York and Northern New England, knocking out power to thousands of customers. Some 52,000 customers in New York and 315.000 in Michigan were affected, utility officials said.But the climate is temperate and warm was also to stay ahead of the front, with other parts of the coast this seeing highs in the 70s along with high humidity. New York Central Park hit a record of 65 degrees on Saturday.The system created wildly swings the patterns of the weather almost from County to County. In Bennington, Vermont, the high reached 63 degrees on Sunday, compared with 37 in Albany, New York - only 40 kilometers to the West.John Yang and Erik Ortiz of NBC News contributed to this report.Related:This story was originally posted on Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:42 PM EST