Hazardous Weather Potential

Ted Jacobson skywarn at frognet.net
Wed Jan 19 06:54:36 EST 2011


URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
516 AM EST WED JAN 19 2011

...WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING.

* ACCUMULATIONS: POTENTIAL FOR 4 INCHES IN A 12 HOUR PERIOD.

* TIMING: THE HEAVIEST SNOW IS LIKELY TO OCCUR
   THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

* IMPACTS: UNTREATED ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME SNOW AND ICE COVERED.

* TEMPERATURES: TEMPERATURES WILL FALL THROUGH THE 20S ONCE THE
   SNOW STARTS...WITH TEMPERATURES BOTTOMING OUT IN THE
   UPPER TEENS OVERNIGHT.

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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TABULAR FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
437 AM EST WED JAN 19 2011

ROWS INCLUDE...
DAILY PREDOMINANT DAYTIME WEATHER 6AM-6PM
FORECAST TEMPERATURES...EARLY MORNING LOW/DAYTIME HIGH
PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION NIGHTTIME 6PM-6AM/DAYTIME 6AM-6PM

FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST     FCST
TODAY    THU      FRI      SAT      SUN      MON      TUE
JAN 19   JAN 20   JAN 21   JAN 22   JAN 23   JAN 24   JAN 25
======   ======   ======   ======   ======   ======   ======
FZDRZL   SNOW     MOCLDY   MOCLDY   PTCLDY   PTCLDY   MOCLDY
--/34    21/29    15/20    4/23     17/28    19/33    24/34
--/20    10/100  100/20    10/00    20/10    10/30    30/30

...SYNOPSIS...

A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH OF THE AREA THIS MORNING.
SOME VERY LIGHT SNOW OR DRIZZLE COULD LINGER BEHIND THE FRONT TODAY.

ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AND ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT
WILL BRING SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...
WITH COLD WEATHER RIGHT THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK.

WEAK LOW WITH A FEW SNOW SHOWERS SATURDAY NIGHT. STRONGER LOW
MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH MORE WINTRY PRECIPITATION.

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Winter 2011 NWS "AWARE" Newsletter now available (14 Pgs 1.3 Mb PDF)
http://www.weather.gov/os/Aware/pdfs/10-11winter-aware.pdf

NWS Southeast OH Winter watch/warning/advisory threshhold cirteria:
http://climate.athens.oh.us/criteria.txt

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