Spcl WX Stmt - Jan 9, 2011 6:40pm

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
638 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2011

...CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS 
EVENING...

AT 630 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE 
AREA OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...MIXED WITH SNOW...OVER MOST OF THE 
ARKLAMISS REGION. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION IS IN A BAND FROM LAKE 
PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA TO NEAR COLUMBUS...AND ALSO FROM MERIDIAN TO 
MCCOMB. THE PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST.

TEMPERATURES ARE AT OR BELOW FREEZING NOW OVER MUCH OF THE AREA.  
THE COMBINATION OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION...TEMPERATURES BELOW 
FREEZING...AND SUNSET WILL RESULT IN RAPIDLY DETERIORATING ROAD 
CONDITIONS THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF US HIGHWAY 84. 
INCREASING REPORTS OF HAZARDOUS TRAVEL ARE BEING RECEIVED BY THE 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THIS EVENING. 

HERE ARE EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...

NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM LAKE PROVIDENCE TO COLUMBUS...SNOW MIXED AT 
TIMES WITH SLEET WILL OCCUR FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SNOW AND 
SLEET WILL LIKELY ACCUMULATE 1 TO 3 INCHES BETWEEN 630 PM AND 10 PM 
OVER THIS AREA. ROAD CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE AND 
WILL BECOME VERY POOR...AND POWER OUTAGES MAY OCCUR AS THE 
ACCUMULATION OF ICE AND SNOW OCCUR ON POWERLINES AND BRANCHES.

OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FROM BROOKHAVEN TO 
MERIDIAN AND SOUTHEAST OF THERE...FREEZING RAIN...MIXED AT TIMES 
WITH SLEET...WILL OCCUR. REPORTS INDICATE THAT GLAZING IS BECOMING 
AN ISSUE ON TREES AND POWERLINES...AND SOME SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES 
ARE NOW BEING REPORTED. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE 
EVENING HOURS AS ICE ACCUMULATES UP TO A HALF INCH WITH LOCALIZED 
AMOUNTS OF THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH. ROAD CONDITIONS WILL ALSO 
CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE...PARTICULARLY ALONG AND NORTH OF US HIGHWAY 
84.

IN BETWEEN THESE TWO AREAS FROM NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ACROSS THE 
JACKSON AND VICKSBURG AREAS TO DE KALB...FREEZING RAIN AND 
SLEET...MIXED AT TIMES WITH SNOW...CAN BE EXPECTED. ROAD CONDITIONS 
WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE...AND SOME POWER OUTAGES MAY OCCUR AS 
ICE ACCUMULATES ON TREES AND POWERLINES.

PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF FROM THE WEST SOUTH OF 
INTERSTATE 20 LATER THIS EVENING...BUT PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE 
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THROUGH AT LEAST THE EVENING HOURS.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS WINTER 
WEATHER SITUATION.