Spcl WX Stmt - Jan 9, 2011 2:44pm

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TIMES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS

244 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2011 

...CONDITIONS VERY HAZARDOUS ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND 
MISSISSIPPI ALONG US HIGHWAY 82...

AT 240 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE 
BAND OF SNOW AND SLEET...MIXED WITH FREEZING RAIN...ALONG AND NORTH 
OF US HIGHWAY 82. THE ACTIVITY WAS LIFTING SLOWLY NORTH.

ROAD CONDITIONS ARE REPORTED AS EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS ALONG THIS BAND 
OF PRECIPITATION...PARTICULARY BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. THIS AREA 
WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE SNOW AND SLEET THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WITH 
POOR TRAVEL CONDITIONS.  AREAS FARTHER SOUTHEAST INTO EAST CENTRAL 
MISSISSIPPI HAVE HAD ICING OF BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES FROM EARLIER 
PRECIPITATION...AND MAY CONTINUE TO HAVE SOME SLICK SPOTS.  

MORE WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL BE MOVING INTO THE REGION FROM WEST 
AND SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN EXPANDING IN 
COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS EAST CENTRAL THROUGH SOUTHEAST 
LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE 
OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE AREA ALONG AND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
THIS EVENING...AND RESULT IN A SEVERAL HOUR PERIOD OF 
SLEET...FREEZING RAIN AND SOME SNOW. 

TEMPERATURES ARE AT OR BELOW FREEZING ALONG AN NORTHWEST OF A LINE 
FROM BASTROP LOUISIANA...TO VICKSBURG...TO QUITMAN. AS THIS 
PRECIPITATION OVERSPREADS THIS AREA...TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL 
DETERIORATE THROUGHT THE EVENING HOURS. FARTHER SOUTH...PERIODS OF 
SLEET WILL CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO DROP CLOSE TO FREEZING ALONG THE 
HIGHWAY 84 CORRIDOR AND MAY RESULT IN SLICK SPOTS ON BRIDGES AND 
OVERPASSES...PARTICULARLY IN ANY AREAS OF HEAVIER SLEET.