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National Weather Service issues Special Weather Statement

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.

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