WINTER STORM WARNING
Warning Issue Date: 326 AM EST SAT DEC 12 2009
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM
EST SUNDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...WHICH IS IN
EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY.
PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A MIXTURE OF
RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW IN THE ASHEVILLE AND HENDERSONVILLE AREAS.
ONCE THE PRECIPITATION BEGINS...TEMPERATURES WILL COOL...ALLOWING
FOR A TRANSITION TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN TO OCCUR. THE WINTRY
MIX SHOULD CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE EVENING...BEFORE TEMPERATURES
BEGIN TO WARM AFTER MIDNIGHT...RESULTING IN A CHANGE TO RAIN.
TOTAL ICE AND SLEET ACCUMULATION OF AROUND A QUARTER OF AN INCH
APPEARS LIKELY ACROSS THE WARNING AREA...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS EAST
OF 1-26.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SLEET AND ICE
ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. ICE ACCUMULATION MAY CAUSE RESULT IN
NUMEROUS DOWNED TREES...AS WELL AS SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. ALTHOUGH
ICE ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR MAINLY ON ELEVATED SURFACES...
TRAVEL MAY ALSO BE SEVERELY IMPACTED.
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