Wind Chill Advisory Through 10 AM Thursday

…WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST
THURSDAY…

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: LAKE-OBION-WEAKLEY-
HENRY-DYER-GIBSON-CARROLL

TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE LOWER TEENS LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THESE VERY COLD TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH NORTH WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH…TO PRODUCE WIND CHILL VALUES BETWEEN FIVE BELOW ZERO AND ZERO. THESE WIND CHILL VALUES WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR ANY PERSON OR ANIMAL EXPOSED TO THE VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AND LOW WIND CHILLS FOR EXTENDED
PERIODS OF TIME.

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS…MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.

NWS 942pm 14 Jan 2009

Arctic Express Arriving This Evening

(Wednesday, January 14, 2009) – The leading edge of the arctic air is entering NW TN at the 5 PM hour.  Graphic below shows the location of the boundary.  Temperatures drop quickly into the 20s and 30s behind the front.  The map contains data from personal weather stations.  Red numbers are the air temperatures; green numbers are dew point temperatures.  Overnight lows tonight in West TN are forecast to be:  14 at Dyersburg; 16 at Jackson; 13 at Paris; 18 at Savannah and 20 at Memphis.  Overnight wind chill temperatures are expect to drop to just below zero across NW TN and be in the single digits over the rest of W. TN. 

Wind Chill Advisory for NW TN

The NWS has issued a wind chill advisory from midnight tonight until 10 am Thursday for the following counties of West TN:  LAKE-OBION-WEAKLEY-
HENRY-DYER-GIBSON-CARROLL-