Central Plains brace for major snowstorm; South to get rain, tornadoes WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Central Plains residents braced for a second major winter storm in four days as a storm system that pounded Denver with high winds and heavy snow moved east. The National Weather Service said blizzard and winter storm conditions would rage across a large portion of the Central Plains through late Monday after a foot of snow fell in Denver. The foothills west of Denver got close to 2 feet by late Sunday, the weather service said. The Colorado snow, which was followed by bitter cold, caused icy conditions on roads and highways. It also forced cancellations of more than 200 flights at Denver International Airport and delays of almost every flight that took off, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The airport usually has 1,500 to 1,600 arriving and departing flights on a Sunday, The Denver Post noted. The area from northeastern Colorado to central Minnesota was hit with another snowstorm Feb. 10-11, with parts of eastern South Dakota getting more than a foot of snow and facing 50 mph winds. For Monday blizzard warnings were in effect for the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, the Oklahoma Panhandle and southwestern Kansas and Missouri, with more than a foot of snow and wind gusts topping 50 mph, the weather service said. The area was hit by a massive storm Thursday that dumped more than a foot of snow in many areas, closed airports and caused numerous accidents. Forecasters said northwest Oklahoma could get 8 to 10 inches, with 15 inches in spots -- quite a contrast to Sunday's mid-60s temperatures. May see 4-6 foot drifts! Traveling is beyond discouraged! Rick Smith, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Norman, Okla., posted on Twitter. The Kansas City, Mo., area expected 9 to 15 inches of snow late Monday into Tuesday. Wichita, Kan., which got more than 14 inches Thursday, bringing the city to a virtual standstill, was forecast to get another foot Monday. "It would have been nice if we'd had a few days to recover, to do some equipment rehab," Wichita public works Deputy Director Joe Pajor told The Wichita Eagle. "The unprecedented nature of this much snow in this short of period of time will create conditions not only on residential streets but all across the entire city that are basically unprecedented for the traveling public," he said. While millions will see snow -- including Chicago, where 4 to 8 inches of snow and sleet were expected Tuesday -- rain may rule for the next few days in parts of the Southwest and Southeast. In San Antonio and Junction, Texas, 100 miles northwest of San Antonio, the storm that brought snow farther north began producing damaging winds, hail and an isolated tornado as thunderstorms race eastward to Houston and Lake Charles, La. Other tornadoes were possible in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Georgia, the weather service said Some areas from Louisiana to South Carolina could see up to 4 inches of rain. Mobile, Ala., expected heavy rains and wind gusts as strong as 30 mph, forecasters said. Flood watches were in effect Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning.