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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CST WED FEB 4 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-051100-
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-
500 AM CST WED FEB 4 2004

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

DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST OF ARKANSAS TODAY. LOW PRESSURE OVER 
WEST TEXAS WILL MOVE TOWARD THE NATURAL STATE THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE 
LOW MOVES EAST IT WILL TAP INTO THE GULF MOISTURE AND DRAW IT 
NORTHWARD. WITH TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA BELOW NORMAL AND AN 
AREA OF DRY AIR ALOFT...PRECIPITATION THIS AFTERNOON WILL BEGIN AS 
SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN IN THE NORTH. A CHANCE OF RAIN IS EXPECTED 
CENTRAL AND SOUTH. 

SOME WARMING WILL TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY EVENING...WITH MAINLY RAIN 
EXPECTED SOUTH OF JASPER...MARSHALL AND SALEM TONIGHT. FARTHER 
NORTH...FREEZING RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST...WITH SIGNIFICANT ICING 
POSSIBLE. 

A WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE EXTREME NORTHWEST 
CORNER OF THE STATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN 
POSTED FOR TONIGHT FOR BAXTER...BOONE...FULTON...MARION...NEWTON AND 
SEARCY COUNTIES. 

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

DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

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. TUESDAY WILL BE DRY.

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

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73,
Glenn