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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
219 AM CST WED NOV 29 2006

...A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH
LATE THURSDAY NIGHT FOR 11 COUNTIES IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS...

.A STRONG COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL AFFECT
ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL MOVE
INTO THE STATE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. THE COMBINATION OF THIS COLD
AIR...ALONG WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT...WILL ALLOW
FOR WIDESPREAD WINTRY PRECIPITATION ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT.

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BAXTER-BOONE-FULTON-IZARD-JOHNSON-MARION-NEWTON-POPE-SEARCY-SHARP-
STONE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASH FLAT...BULL SHOALS...CALICO ROCK...
CAVE CITY...CLARKSVILLE...DEER...FLIPPIN...GASSVILLE...HARDY...
HARRISON...HECTOR...HORSESHOE BEND...JASPER...LEAD HILL...
LESLIE...MAMMOTH SPRING...MARSHALL...MELBOURNE...MOUNTAIN HOME...
MOUNTAIN VIEW...NORFORK...OMAHA...OXFORD...OZONE...PELSOR...
RUSSELLVILLE...SALEM...SUMMIT...VIOLA...WESTERN GROVE...YELLVILLE
219 AM CST WED NOV 29 2006

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH
LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH
LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. THIS WATCH IS FOR AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND
NORTH OF A LINE FROM CLARKSVILLE...TO DOVER...TO GILBERT...TO CAVE
CITY. 

RAIN WILL BE ONGOING IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY
MORNING. COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE...BEHIND A
STRONG COLD FRONT. THE COLD AIR WILL INITIALLY BE SHALLOW...WITH
SURFACE TEMPERATURES DROPPING BELOW FREEZING DURING THE MORNING.
THIS MEANS THAT THE RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN DURING
THE MORNING...AND WILL MIX WITH SLEET TOWARD MID DAY. AS THE COLD
AIR DEEPENS...THE PRECIPITATION WILL TRANSITION OVER TO A MIX OF
SLEET AND SNOW BY THE AFTERNOON...CHANGING TO ALL SNOW DURING THE
LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE SNOW WILL COME TO AN
END LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. 

LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THURSDAY...MAINLY
ON ELEVATED SURFACES. AS THE PRECIPITATION GRADUALLY CHANGES OVER
TO SNOW...ACCUMULATIONS ARE INITIALLY EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT.
HOWEVER...THESE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL INCREASE DURING THE
EVENING. AS MUCH AS FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF SNOW COULD OCCUR IN
AREAS MAINLY NORTH OF CLARKSVILLE...MOUNTAIN VIEW...AND HARDY. LOCALLY
HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL OCCUR IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE OZARK
MOUNTAINS. 

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT
SNOW...SLEET...OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. REMAIN
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND CONTINUE TO
MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

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