WINTER STORM WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 627 AM EST THU DEC 24 2009
...SIGNIFICANT ICING LIKELY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...
.STRONG LOW PRESSURE WILL LIFT NORTH INTO THE MID MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY LATER TONIGHT...REACHING THE UPPER MIDWEST ON FRIDAY. AHEAD OF
THIS SYSTEM...A COMPLEX FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE SLOWLY
EAST INTO THE AREA BY MIDDAY FRIDAY. MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE FRONT
WILL PRODUCE INCREASING RAINFALL ALONG THE SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE
LATER TONIGHT AND ELSEWHERE ON FRIDAY. SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE
EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW FREEZING FOR MUCH OF THE TIME ALONG AND
ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS.
VAZ011-013-014-018>020-022>024-033>035-WVZ044-045-241945-
/O.CON.KRNK.WS.A.0007.091225T0500Z-091225T2300Z/
GILES-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-
BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-MONROE-GREENBRIER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PULASKI...RADFORD...BLACKSBURG...
NEW CASTLE...HOT SPRINGS...ROANOKE...ROCKY MOUNT...AMHERST...
UNION...LEWISBURG...QUINWOOD...DUO...RAINELLE
627 AM EST THU DEC 24 2009
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
FRIDAY AFTERNOON...
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
* LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN LATE TONIGHT...AND
THEN CONTINUE INTO THE DAY FRIDAY.
* AROUND A QUARTER INCH OF ICING MAY BE WIDESPREAD BY FRIDAY
AFTERNOON. AREAS ALONG AND ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BLUE RIDGE
PARKWAY MAY SEE UP LOCALLY HIGHER ICE ACCUMULATION TOTALS.
* THIS AMOUNT OF ICING MAY DOWN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
* ROAD TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT BY EARLY FRIDAY MORNING MAY BE COLD
ENOUGH TO BECOME ICY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR
SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO
MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.
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