Winter Storm Watch SE Alabama

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee, FL, has issued a Winter Storm Watch for Southeast Alabama, Southwest Georgia, and portions of the Florida Peninsula for Tuesday evening through Wednesday afternoon. Rather than summarize it here, I have posted the message just below. Let the winter forecasts begin!!

I do expect to see additional watches, warnings, or advisories to be issued as the complex weather pattern gradually unfolds.

Here’s the map as of 2:15 pm on Sunday, January 26, 2014. Besides Tallahassee, NWS offices in Wilmington, NC, Charleston, SC, and Columbia, SC, have issued Winter Storm Watches (areas shows in the medium blue color).

-Brian-

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
304 PM EST SUN JAN 26 2014

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH
EARLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST
GEORGIA...SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA
PANHANDLE...

.AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION MONDAY
NIGHT...WITH VERY COLD AIR STREAMING IN BEHIND IT ON TUESDAY AND
TUESDAY NIGHT. LIGHT RAIN WILL DEVELOP TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AND
THIS RAIN WILL GRADUALLY CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN TUESDAY NIGHT.
ACCUMULATIONS WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM A TENTH TO TWO TENTHS OF
AN INCH...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. LATE TUESDAY NIGHT
AND EARLY WEDNESDAY...SOME OF THE FREEZING RAIN MAY MIX WITH OR
CHANGE TO LIGHT SNOW OR SLEET...WITH ACCUMULATIONS FROM A QUARTER
TO HALF AN INCH POSSIBLE BEFORE THE PRECIPITATION WINDS DOWN
DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY.

ALZ065>069-FLZ007-009-GAZ120>131-142>145-271600-
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COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-QUITMAN-
CLAY-RANDOLPH-CALHOUN-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-
BEN HILL-IRWIN-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ENTERPRISE...OZARK...FORT RUCKER...
DALEVILLE...HEADLAND...ABBEVILLE...GENEVA...HARTFORD...SAMSON...
SLOCOMB...MALVERN...TAYLOR...ASHFORD...DOTHAN...KINSEY...
COWARTS...WEBB...COTTONWOOD...REHOBETH...DE FUNIAK SPRINGS...
HUDSON...BONIFAY...GEORGETOWN...FORT GAINES...CUTHBERT...
SHELLMAN...ARLINGTON...MORGAN...EDISON...LEARY...DAWSON...
ALBANY...LEESBURG...SMITHVILLE...SYLVESTER...ASHBURN...TIFTON...
FITZGERALD...OCILLA...DOUGLASVILLE...BLAKELY...COLQUITT...
NEWTON...CAMILLA...PELHAM
304 PM EST SUN JAN 26 2014 /204 PM CST SUN JAN 26 2014/

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

* TIMING...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING

* MAIN IMPACT...ICY ROADS AND BRIDGES.

* OTHER IMPACTS...IF THERE IS MORE FREEZING RAIN THAN CURRENTLY
  EXPECTED...POWER OUTAGES COULD BECOME A MAJOR
  CONCERN...ESPECIALLY WITH A VERY COLD NIGHT IN STORE WEDNESDAY
  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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