WINTER STORM WARNING
Warning Issue Date: 1117 PM EST TUE DEC 08 2009
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST
THURSDAY...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
* AS OF 1110 PM MODERATE SNOWFALL WAS MOVING THROUGH THE
ALLEGAN...HOLLAND AND GRAND RAPIDS REGIONS. THIS SNOW IS
EXPECTED TO BECOME MIX WITH RAIN AND SLEET SHORTLY AFTER
MIDNIGHT. THIS MIXTURE WILL HALT SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS. BY
DAYBREAK SNOW TOTALS WILL RANGE FROM 2 INCHES IN SOUTHWEST
ALLEGAN COUNTY TO AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES IN FAR NORTHERN KENT
COUNTY.
* THE MIX OF RAIN AND SLEET WILL TRANSITION TO LAKE EFFECT SNOW
SHOWERS WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY. SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED
BY WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH DURING THE EVENING WEDNESDAY INTO
THURSDAY.
* GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL
PRODUCE WIND CHILLS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS BY LATE WEDNESDAY
NIGHT.
* EXPECT TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 8 TO 12 INCHES BY DAYBREAK
THURSDAY.
IMPACTS...
* ALL TRAVEL SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
* TRAVEL WILL BE MOST SEVERELY IMPACTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS
SNOW... BLOWING SNOW...AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES OCCUR
NEAR THE TIME OF THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE. NEAR BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING...ESPECIALLY
ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 131.
* POWER OUTAGES WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY
MORNING DUE TO THE STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
* IT WOULD BE BEST NOT TO TRAVEL TONIGHT OR FROM WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.
* IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND
WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
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