SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

1034 PM CST MON MAR 2 2015

 

...A WINTRY MIX WILL RETURN TO PORTIONS OF THE FOUR STATE REGION

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING...

 

A STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL ENTER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EXTREME

NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

AROUND DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY...WITH MUCH COLDER AIR SPILLING SOUTH

INTO EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA DURING THE DAY. SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP NEAR AND JUST BEHIND THE COLD

FRONT...WITH A WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET EXPECTED TO

DEVELOP FARTHER NORTH BEHIND THE FRONT DURING THE AFTERNOON OVER

SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS TEMPERATURES QUICKLY

FALL TO OR BELOW FREEZING. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE OVER TO A

MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WEDNESDAY EVENING OVER EXTREME

NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST

ARKANSAS...AND POSSIBLY AFTER MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE

INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF NORTH LOUISIANA.

 

AT THIS TIME...ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A TENTH TO A QUARTER OF AN

INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA...PORTIONS

OF EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHCENTRAL

LOUISIANA THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. ISOLATED HIGHER ICE

ACCUMULATIONS GREATER THAN ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE

ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION MAY

CHANGE OVER TO SNOW BEFORE ENDING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...RESULTING IN LIGHT

SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER

AMOUNTS...ATOP THE ICE.

 

A WINTER STORM WATCH MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE REGION

FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BE SURE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS FROM

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL WINTER STORM.