[PBARC] Hazardous Weather Outlook

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
935 PM CST TUE FEB 3 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-041100-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-
LONOKE-MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-
POLK-POPE-PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN 
BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF-YELL-
935 PM CST TUE FEB 3 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN DEPARTING ON WEDNESDAY. COLD AIR 
WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE HIGH...AND IT WILL BE SLOW TO LEAVE.  
MEANWHILE...A STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. 
MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM WILL ENCOUNTER BELOW NORMAL 
TEMPERATURES IN ARKANSAS. A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL RESULT 
IN NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. 

A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP 
ACROSS MAINLY THE NORTHERN TWO ROWS OF COUNTIES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 
SOME WARMING WILL TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY EVENING...WITH MAINLY RAIN 
EXPECTED SOUTH OF JASPER...MARSHALL AND SALEM WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 
FARTHER NORTH...FREEZING RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST...WITH SIGNIFICANT 
ICING POSSIBLE. 

A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR 
BAXTER...BOONE...FULTON...MARION...NEWTON AND SEARCY COUNTIES. 

FARTHER SOUTH...A RAIN EVENT IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH 
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. RAIN MAY BE MIXED WITH SLEET 
INITIALLY AS MOISTURE ENCOUNTERS DRY AIR ALOFT.     

ON THURSDAY...A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE IN THE 
EXTREME NORTH...WHILE RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE 
IN THE SOUTH. HOWEVER...PRECIPITATION WILL DECREASE DURING THE DAY. 
THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...COLDER AIR WILL SPILL BACK INTO THE 
REGION AND THERE WILL BE A MIXTURE OF RAIN AND SNOW OVER THE AREA. 
HOWEVER...BY THEN...MOISTURE WILL BE SPARSE SO ANY PRECIPITATION 
AMOUNTS WILL BE SMALL.

HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND DECREASE CLOUD 
COVER. THIS HIGH WILL ALSO KEEP DRY WEATHER ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE 
WEEKEND. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL ENTER THE STATE MONDAY AFTERNOON... 
BRINGING A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW TO THE NORTH...AND A CHANCE OF 
RAIN IN THE SOUTH. 

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

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73,
Glenn