Winter Weather Advisory

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

431 PM CST WED FEB 10 2010

...WINTER WEATHER EXPECTED THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY...

.A MID-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM PROGRESSING ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN

UNITED STATES WILL HELP FORM AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE

WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO...WHICH WILL LEAD TO LIGHT TO MODERATE

RAIN SPREADING ACROSS THE AREA BY THURSDAY MORNING.

THE COMBINATION OF THESE FEATURES WITH A LINGERING COLD AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE

REGION WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SNOW AND SLEET MIXED WITH

THE RAIN BEGINNING AS EARLY AS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AS SURFACE

TEMPERATURES DROP CLOSER TO THE FREEZING MARK AFTER SUNSET...MUCH

OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL TURN TO ALL SNOW OR SLEET...WHILE ALSO

BEGINNING TO ACCUMULATE.

THE WINTER PRECIPITATION WILL STICK FIRST TO VEGETATION AND ELEVATED SURFACES BEFORE ACCUMULATING ON SURFACE ROADWAYS DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TIME FRAMES. THE

SNOW AND SLEET WILL LIKELY LINGER INTO FRIDAY MORNING...POSSIBLY

FRIDAY AFTERNOON OVER EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA...BEFORE CHANGING

BACK TO RAIN AND THEN COMING TO AN END WITH THE DEPARTURE OF THE

STORM SYSTEM.

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INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LEESVILLE...ALEXANDRIA...MARKSVILLE...

DERIDDER...OAKDALE...VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...WOODVILLE...

JASPER...NEWTON...LUMBERTON

431 PM CST WED FEB 10 2010

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THURSDAY TO 6 PM

CST FRIDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A WINTER

WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS SNOW AND SLEET...WHICH

IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THURSDAY TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY.

RAINFALL SPREADING ACROSS THE AREA BEGINNING TONIGHT WILL BEGIN TO

MIX WITH SNOW AND SLEET AS EARLY AS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AS

SURFACE TEMPERATURES DROP CLOSER TO THE FREEZING MARK AFTER

SUNSET THURSDAY...MUCH OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL TURN TO ALL SNOW

OR POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SOME SLEET...WHILE ALSO BEGINNING TO

ACCUMULATE. AT THIS TIME THE HIGHEST ACCUMULATIONS ARE FORECAST

FOR RAPIDES AND AVOYELLES PARISHES WHERE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW OR

SLEET ARE EXPECTED...WITH AMOUNTS THEN DIMINISHING TO AROUND 1

INCH FROM OPELOUSAS TO LEESVILLE TO NEWTON. AMOUNTS AVERAGING A

1/2 INCH EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF INTERIOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...SLEET...OR

FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR

SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE

DRIVING.