Winter Storm Watch for areas from the Lakes eastward.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
411 AM CST TUE DEC 14 2010

...SIGNIFICANT ICING POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY
THURSDAY MORNING...

.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL TRACK EASTWARD ACROSS WESTERN
TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTHWARD AHEAD
OF THIS SYSTEM...CAUSING SNOW AND SLEET TO TRANSITION TO FREEZING
RAIN BY WEDNESDAY EVENING.

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GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-WARRICK-SPENCER-CRITTENDEN-LYON-
TRIGG-CALDWELL-UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-
DAVIESS-MCLEAN-MUHLENBERG-TODD-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT BRANCH...PETERSBURG...POSEYVILLE...
EVANSVILLE...BOONVILLE...ROCKPORT...MARION...EDDYVILLE...CADIZ...
PRINCETON...MORGANFIELD...DIXON...MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...
HENDERSON...OWENSBORO...CALHOUN...GREENVILLE...ELKTON
411 AM CST TUE DEC 14 2010

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING...

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

* THIS WINTER STORM WATCH INCLUDES SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND THE
 PENNYRILE REGION OF WESTERN KENTUCKY.

* TIMING...AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE WATCH
 AREA WEDNESDAY. THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE STEADIEST AND HEAVIEST
 WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WHEN ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH OF GLAZE
 COULD ACCRUE ON EXPOSED SURFACES. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL LIKELY
 CHANGE TO PLAIN RAIN FOR A WHILE NEAR THE TENNESSEE STATE LINE.
 ALL THE PRECIPITATION TYPES WILL COME TO AN END ON THURSDAY MORNING.

* MAIN IMPACT... ROADWAYS WILL BECOME ICY BY WEDNESDAY
 EVENING...RESULTING IN DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS.

* OTHER IMPACTS... SOME ICING OF TREES AND POWER LINES IS
 EXPECTED...POTENTIALLY RESULTING IN SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES.
 HOWEVER...WIDESPREAD DAMAGING ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE ARE NOT
 EXPECTED.

* CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY EXISTS REGARDING THE AMOUNT AND TYPE OF
 PRECIPITATION. THE WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED TO ALERT THE PUBLIC TO
 THE POTENTIAL OF SIGNIFICANT WINTER PRECIPITATION.

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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