SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT – Update

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
WEST TENNESSEE WEATHER ONLINE JACKSON TN
608 PM CST MON DEC 15 2008

 

WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 12 PM CST TUESDAY FOR CARROLL-DYER-
GIBSON-HENRY-LAKE-OBION-WEAKLEY.

ICE STORM WARNING UNTIL 12 PM CST TUESDAY FOR CHESTER-CROCKETT-
DECATUR-FAYETTE-HARDEMAN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-LAUDERDALE-
MADISON-SHELBY-TIPTON.

FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 12 PM CST
TUESDAY FOR HARDIN-MCNAIRY.
SHORTLY BEFORE 6 PM, DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING LIGHT TO MODERATE FREEZING RAIN OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY, EXTREME NORTHWEST TENNESSEE, THE

MISSOURI BOOTHEEL AND MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION IS MOVING NORTHEAST. THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE

PRECIPITATION GENERALLY FROM MARTIN TO NEWBERN TO DYERSBURG TO BLYTHEVILLE, AR. RADAR IS SHOWING SOME ISOLATED PATCHES OF HIGHER

REFLECTIVITY WHICH SUGGESTS SLEET. REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT LATE AFTERNOON HAVE INCLUDED 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH OF SLEET IN

SOME AREAS. ROADWAYS ARE BECOMING ICE COVERED IN DUNKLIN COUNTY MISSOURI AND ACROSS NORTHEAST ARKANSAS.

TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID-UPPER 20S ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF WEST TENNESSEE INTO THE MEMPHIS AREA. ACROSS SOUTHEAST WEST TENNESSEE TEMPERATURES ARE AROUND FREEZING.

COMPUTER MODELS ARE NOT HANDLING THE CURRENT PRECIPITAION AREA VERY WELL AS THEY HAVE SUGGESTED THAT WHAT IS OCCURING CURRENTLY WAS

EXPECTED LATER THIS EVENING. A SECOND AREA OF PRECIPITATION IS OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND IS MOVING NORTHEAST. THIS PRECIPITATION IS

LIKELY LIGHT RAIN AND LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AS TEMPERATURES FROM MESONET STATIONS ARE RIGHT AT THE FREEZING MARK.

COMPUTER MODELS SUGGEST THE THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE I-40 CORRIDOR. THE AREA APPEARS TO BUILDING VERY

SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AND WILL LIKELY BE NEARING THE JACKSON AREA TOWARD 9 PM OR SO.

ANOTHER UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED FROM THIS OFFICE BY AROUND 10 PM.

HOLMES/NWS