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There are about a gazillion winter weather messages for parts of the mid-south, including "winter storm watch", "winter storm warning", "winter weather advisory", "winter weather warning", and who knows what else. Here is the bottom line:
At 3:00 p.m. Tupelo was down to 42 with light rain. Heavy rain was falling over at Greenwood, MS with 39 degrees.
Up in Memphis, sleet was reported at 3:00 with 30 degrees.
Just checked (4:00 p.m.) our Hamilton weathernet site: 54 degrees, so the cold air seems hung up near the Alabama/Mississippi state line right now.
On the maps, a surface low should move from near Jackson to Scottsboro, and then on into eastern Tennessee tonight. Until the surface low gets northeast of us, the cold air will only seep slowly into northwest Alabama.
We think the best chance icy travel in Alabama tonight and early tomorrow will be in an area from roughly Vernon in Lamar county to the Muscle Shoals area in the northwest corner of the state. And, in most of these places, icy spots will be pretty sparse.
BUFKIT data shows we should see a period of sleet or freezing rain late tonight over the northwest part of Alabama, but precipitation will be very light as the big storm pulls away from Alabama. Sleet rarely causes travel problems, but freezing rain can mean some icy spots. Road surfaces will have no problems at all due to the warm-up over the past two days, but some bridges in northwest Alabama could be a little icy in spots.
SO... not really a major event, but if you are driving late tonight in that part of Alabama from Sulligent to Muscle Shoals, just be careful.
The big snow is in an area from north Texas and south Oklahoma up through parts of Arkansas, Kentucky, far northwest Tennessee, and into southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, and western Ohio.
We should also mention a tornado watch is up for parts of south Mississippi and southeast Louisiana... severe storms are very possible down in south Alabama tonight. Not a good night for a college bowl game in Mobile.
More later...
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There are about a gazillion winter weather messages for parts of the mid-south, including "winter storm watch", "winter storm warning", "winter weather advisory", "winter weather warning", and who knows what else. Here is the bottom line:
At 3:00 p.m. Tupelo was down to 42 with light rain. Heavy rain was falling over at Greenwood, MS with 39 degrees.
Up in Memphis, sleet was reported at 3:00 with 30 degrees.
Just checked (4:00 p.m.) our Hamilton weathernet site: 54 degrees, so the cold air seems hung up near the Alabama/Mississippi state line right now.
On the maps, a surface low should move from near Jackson to Scottsboro, and then on into eastern Tennessee tonight. Until the surface low gets northeast of us, the cold air will only seep slowly into northwest Alabama.
We think the best chance icy travel in Alabama tonight and early tomorrow will be in an area from roughly Vernon in Lamar county to the Muscle Shoals area in the northwest corner of the state. And, in most of these places, icy spots will be pretty sparse.
BUFKIT data shows we should see a period of sleet or freezing rain late tonight over the northwest part of Alabama, but precipitation will be very light as the big storm pulls away from Alabama. Sleet rarely causes travel problems, but freezing rain can mean some icy spots. Road surfaces will have no problems at all due to the warm-up over the past two days, but some bridges in northwest Alabama could be a little icy in spots.
SO... not really a major event, but if you are driving late tonight in that part of Alabama from Sulligent to Muscle Shoals, just be careful.
The big snow is in an area from north Texas and south Oklahoma up through parts of Arkansas, Kentucky, far northwest Tennessee, and into southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, and western Ohio.
We should also mention a tornado watch is up for parts of south Mississippi and southeast Louisiana... severe storms are very possible down in south Alabama tonight. Not a good night for a college bowl game in Mobile.
More later...
on December 22, 2004, 3:54 pm
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
336 PM CST WED DEC 22 2004
.A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE GULF COASTAL REGION
TO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TONIGHT. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER NORTHERN
ALABAMA AROUND MIDNIGHT...AND FROM THERE INTO EASTERN TENNESSEE.
AS THAT HAPPENS...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA...
WITH MUCH COLDER AIR BEHIND IT. THE FRONT WILL AFFECT THE
AREA WEST OF I-65 FROM LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE PREDAWN HOURS...
AND THE AREA EAST OF I-65 FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH MID MORNING
THURSDAY.
AIR TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT WILL DRAMATICALLY FALL...REACHING
THE FREEZING POINT SHORTLY AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. THIS COLD AIR...
ALONG WITH CONTINUED MOISTURE WILL CAUSE A MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION.
RAIN WILL CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE...AND MAY
ALSO BE MIXED WITH SLEET. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD CHANGE OVER
BRIEFLY TO LIGHT SNOW THURSDAY MORNING...AND TAPER TO FLURRIES BY
EARLY AFTERNOON.
ALZ001>005-231000-
COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATHENS...FLORENCE...MOULTON...
MUSCLE SHOALS...RUSSELLVILLE
336 PM CST WED DEC 22 2004
...WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST ALABAMA...
A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA
THIS EVENING. BETWEEN 9 PM THIS EVENING AND 6 AM THURSDAY...RAIN
FALLING ACROSS THE AREA WILL CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN...OCCASIONALLY
MIXED WITH SLEET. THIS PRECIPITATION SHOULD CHANGE TO SNOW AFTER 4 AM
AND TAPER TO FLURRIES...ENDING DURING THE MORNING.
TOTAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS COULD BE UP TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH WEST OF
I-65...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS. THERE COULD ALSO BE A LIGHT
DUSTING OF SNOW. THESE ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL COAT ELEVATED ROAD
SURFACES SUCH AS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES...AS WELL AS TREES AND
POWERLINES.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SLICK SPOTS...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES
AND OVERPASSES...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR A FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET...FOR
FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE.
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