WINTER STORM WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 659 PM EST MON DEC 07 2009
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
* POTENTIAL FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES.
* SNOW WILL BEGIN LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH POTENTIALLY HEAVY
SNOWFALL THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
* SNOW WILL LIKELY MIX WITH SLEET AND RAIN TUESDAY MORNING.
* ANY MIX OF RAIN AND SLEET WILL TRANSITION TO LAKE EFFECT SNOW
SHOWERS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW BURSTS.
SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH DURING
THE EVENING.
* GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL
PRODUCE WINDCHILLS IN THE RANGE OF 0 TO 10 BELOW BEGINNING
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
IMPACTS...
* ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME SNOW COVERED BY EARLY TUESDAY EVENING
POSSIBLY IMPACTING THE TAIL END OF THE COMMUTE HOME.
* SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE AS WET SNOW COMBINES WITH
GUSTY WINDS TO BRING DOWN LIMBS TUESDAY EVENING AND AGAIN
WEDNESDAY EVENING DUE TO HIGH WIND GUSTS.
* TRAVEL WILL BE MOST 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.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
* IT WOULD BE BEST NOT TO TRAVEL TUESDAY EVENING OR FROM LATE
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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COBB
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