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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
324 PM CST THU MAR 7 2013

...SIGNIFICANT ICING AND SNOWFALL POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING OVER PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL
MINNESOTA... 

.AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE SHIFTING EAST FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS
INTO THE MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY
WILL SPREAD A MIX OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS WESTERN
AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA. THE PRECIPITATION WILL START
OUT AS A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SATURDAY MORNING...MIX WITH AND CHANGE OVER TO RAIN DURING THE DAY
ON SATURDAY...THEN MIX WITH AND CHANGE OVER TO LIGHT SNOW SATURDAY
EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. ICE ACCUMULATION OF
ONE TENTH TO ONE QUARTER INCH ALONG WITH SNOWFALL TOTALS RANGING
FROM 3 TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THOSE ALONG AND
WEST OF A LINE FROM MORA TO ELK RIVER TO HUTCHINSON TO REDWOOD
FALLS.

MNZ041>045-047>051-054>059-064>066-073-080600-
/O.NEW.KMPX.WS.A.0006.130309T0200Z-130310T1200Z/
DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS-
BENTON-SHERBURNE-LAC QUI PARLE-SWIFT-CHIPPEWA-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-
WRIGHT-YELLOW MEDICINE-RENVILLE-MCLEOD-REDWOOD-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALEXANDRIA...LONG PRAIRIE...
LITTLE FALLS...PRINCETON...MORA...MORRIS...GLENWOOD...ST. CLOUD...
FOLEY...ELK RIVER...MADISON...BENSON...MONTEVIDEO...WILLMAR...
LITCHFIELD...MONTICELLO...GRANITE FALLS...OLIVIA...HUTCHINSON...
REDWOOD FALLS
324 PM CST THU MAR 7 2013

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED
A WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING
THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. 

* TIMING: FREEZING RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW TO DEVELOP LATE FRIDAY
  EVENING...CONTINUING THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY ON SATURDAY.
  PRECIPITATION WILL MIX WITH AND CHANGE OVER TO RAIN DURING THE
  DAY ON SATURDAY. PRECIPITATION WILL THEN MIX WITH AND CHANGE
  OVER TO LIGHT SNOW SATURDAY EVENING AND CONTINUE AS LIGHT SNOW
  THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING.

* MAIN IMPACT: POTENTIAL ICE ACCUMULATION OF ONE TENTH TO ONE
  QUARTER INCH OF ICE ALONG WITH SNOW ACCUMULATION OF BETWEEN 3
  AND 6 INCHES THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THIS EVENT. TRAVEL WILL
  BECOME HAZARDOUS STARTING FRIDAY NIGHT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT
SNOW...SLEET...OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.

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