[LeArc] Winter Storm To Impact The Area This Weekend

[Brandon Sullivan]

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL  
339 PM CST THU NOV 29 2007  
  
...WINTER STORM WITH SIGNIFICANT SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS  
EXPECTED SATURDAY...  
  
.A DEVELOPING WINTER STORM SYSTEM WILL LIFT NORTHEAST OUT OF THE  
CENTRAL ROCKIES ON SATURDAY...PASSING THROUGH IOWA SATURDAY NIGHT.   
AS THE STORM APPROACHES...WARM AND VERY MOIST AIR WILL LIFT OVER  
VERY COLD AIR IN PLACE ACROSS THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THIS  
WILL SPREAD PRECIPITATION IN THE FORM OF SLEET...FREEZING RAIN AND  
SNOW ACROSS EASTERN IOWA...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST  
MISSOURI ON SATURDAY. SIGNIFICANT ICE AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL  
BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING BEFORE THE PRECIPITATION  
CHANGES OVER TO RAIN.  
  
THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY IN THE TRACK OF THIS STORM...WHICH  
MAY AFFECT PRECIPITATION TYPES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SNOW AND ICE  
ACCUMULATIONS AT ANY GIVEN LOCATION. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL  
TO CREATE VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS.   
  
IAZ087>089-098-099-ILZ025-026-034-035-MOZ009-010-300545-  
/O.NEW.KDVN.WS.A.0006.071201T1200Z-071202T0000Z/  
JEFFERSON-HENRY IA-DES MOINES-VAN BUREN-LEE-HENDERSON-WARREN-  
HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK-  
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FAIRFIELD...MOUNT PLEASANT...  
BURLINGTON...KEOSAUQUA....FORT MADISON...OQUAWKA...MONMOUTH...  
CARTHAGE...MACOMB...MEMPHIS...KAHOKA  
339 PM CST THU NOV 29 2007  
  
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH  
SATURDAY AFTERNOON...  
  
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A WINTER  
STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH  
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.   
  
A MIX OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE  
AREA SATURDAY AS A STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE SOUTHWEST.  
THE PRECIPITATION GRADUALLY CHANGE TO MAINLY FREEZING RAIN SOUTH  
OF HIGHWAY 30 IN THE AFTERNOON WITH SNOW AND SLEET CONTINUING TO  
THE NORTH. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL  
FOR 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30. SOUTH OF THIS  
LINE...FREEZING RAIN WILL BE A GREATER THREAT...WITH AS MUCH AS A  
QUARTER TO HALF INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE. THE  
PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO PRIMARILY RAIN SATURDAY  
NIGHT AS TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING.   
  
A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT  
SNOW...SLEET...AND/OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT WOULD SERIOUSLY  
IMPACT TRAVEL. MONITOR LATER FORECASTS FOR UPDATES.