A storm system that moved into Kansas overnight left up to a foot of heavy, wet snow in parts of the southeast Tuesday. Scores of motorists slid off slick roads into ditches, many schools were closed and evening athletic events were called off.

“One 911 call after another,” said Judy Ballard, a dispatcher with the Wilson County Sheriff’s Department in Fredonia, between Wichita and Pittsburg. “The wreckers have been quite busy, too.”

Ballard described road conditions as snow-packed, icy and “pretty bad,” with one reported injury accident involving a head-on collision between a car and a tractor-trailer.

Rob Cox, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita, said Wilson County had the heaviest reported snowfall by mid-day Tuesday, with up to about a foot of snow in the Buffalo area. He said reports of 10 and 11 inches were widespread across the county.

Cox said an upper level system that moved through Oklahoma during the night drew moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico.

Other reported snowfall amounts ranged from only about an inch in Sedgwick County to 4 inches in Cowley and Montgomery counties to 6 inches in Allen, Woodson, Chautauqua, Neosho and Sumner counties.