SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 343 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2015 ...WINTER PRECIPITATION RETURNING TO PORTIONS OF THE FOUR STATE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY... A REINFORCING SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR WILL RETURN TO THE FOUR STATE REGION TONIGHT WITH VERY COLD TEMPERATURES EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS ARCTIC AIR MASS IS VERY SHALLOW AND WILL ONLY PUSH INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA BEFORE RETURNING WARM AND MOIST AIR OVERRUNS THE COLDER TEMPERATURES AT THE SURFACE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY SPINNING ACROSS THE BAJA REGION WILL BEGIN TO EJECT OUT INTO NORTHERN MEXICO AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ON SATURDAY. LIGHT RAIN WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON...QUICKLY SPREADING NORTH AND EAST ACROSS OUR REGION SATURDAY NIGHT. THE WARMER AIR JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE SUGGESTS THAT THIS PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY BEGIN AS A COLD RAIN SATURDAY EVENING. HOWEVER...AS THE PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO FALL LATER SATURDAY NIGHT... TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY FALL TO NEAR FREEZING ALONG THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA OR ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM TYLER AND LONGVIEW TEXAS...TO SHREVEPORT AND MONROE LOUISIANA. THUS THE RAIN COULD CHANGE OVER TO LIGHT FREEZING RAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF THE CORRIDOR LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. LITTLE IF ANY FREEZING RAIN ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED ALONG THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA OVERNIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. FURTHER NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR...INCLUDING ALL OF SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND THE NORTHERN THIRD OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN WILL BE MORE LIKELY AS TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FREEZING SATURDAY NIGHT. FREEZING RAIN ACCUMULATION OF LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS REGION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE TEMPERATURES WARM ENOUGH BY LATE MORNING ON SUNDAY WITH THE FREEZING RAIN TRANSITIONING TO A COLD RAIN. SOME SLIGHT ICE ACCUMULATION OF ELEVATED BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES AS WELL AS ON TREES AND POWER LINES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS REGION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES MAY BECOME NECESSARY FOR THIS REGION AS THE EVENT NEARS.