URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
357 PM EDT MON MAR 17 2014
..PERIODS OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE
ALONG WITH A LITTLE SLEET AND SNOW WILL SPREAD SOUTH TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO
TUESDAY MORNING...
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HALIFAX-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-CHATHAM-WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-
STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROANOKE RAPIDS...LOUISBURG...
FRANKLINTON...NASHVILLE...RED OAK...SHARPSBURG...SPRING
HOPE...
ROCKY MOUNT...SILER CITY...PITTSBORO...RALEIGH...CARY...
SMITHFIELD...CLAYTON...SELMA...BENSON...WILSON...ALBEMARLE...
TROY...BISCOE...MOUNT GILEAD...SOUTHERN PINES...PINEHURST...
ABERDEEN...SEVEN
LAKES...SANFORD...DUNN...ERWIN...ANGIER...
LILLINGTON
357 PM EDT MON MAR 17 2014
..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS
EVENING TO NOON EDT TUESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WINTRY PRECIPITATION AND FALLING
TEMPERATURES...WHICH CAN PRODUCE ICING ON ROADS. THE ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM
7 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EDT TUESDAY.
* LOCATIONS...MUCH OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
* HAZARD TYPES...A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND FREEZING
DRIZZLE
ALONG WITH SOME
SLEET AND SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS...GLAZING OF ICE UP TO A TENTH INCH.
* TIMING...PERIODS OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR
OVERNIGHT
AND CONTINUE AT
LEAST INTO THE MORNING TUESDAY.
* WINDS...NORTH NEAR 10 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES...FALLING TO LOWS AROUND 30.
* IMPACTS...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND FREEZING DRIZZLE
OVERNIGHT
WILL RESULT IN
GLAZE OF ICE ON ELEVATED SURFACES EARLY TONIGHT
AS TEMPERATURES FALL...AND
EVENTUALLY SOME GLAZING ON ROADS AS
TEMPERATURES FALL
BELOW FREEZING. ANY SLEET AND SNOW THAT
FALLS...EVEN WITH
MINOR ACCUMULATIONS...WILL HELP TO PRODUCE
AREAS OF
HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. WHILE ISOLATED POWER
OUTAGES ARE
POSSIBLE...WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE NOT
EXPECTED.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED BECAUSE PERIODS
OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL CREATE LOCALLY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS.
MOTORISTS IN THE ADVISORY AREA ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND LEAVE PLENTY OF
FOLLOWING DISTANCE...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WHERE GLAZING IS MORE
LIKELY.
