[BNAWX] Winter Weather Message

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
341 AM CST SAT DEC 7 2013

...SMALL ICE ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE TONIGHT...

.AS LIGHT RAINS MOVE BACK INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE TONIGHT...
TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AT OR JUST BELOW FREEZING. AT
ONSET...AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40 COULD EXPERIENCE SLEET...BUT
A QUICK CHANGEOVER TO ALL FREEZING RAIN IS LIKELY. COUNTIES IN THE
ADVISORY CAN EXPECT A BUILDUP OF ICE ON ELEVATED ROADWAYS...TREES
AND POWER LINES. WHILE ICE ACCUMULATION LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF
AN INCH USUALLY DOES NOT CAUSE WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES...THOSE
WHO RECEIVE MOST OF THE ACCUMULATION TONIGHT COULD EXPERIENCE
SHORT-LIVED POWER INTERRUPTIONS. IF YOU HAVE TO BE ON MIDDLE
TENNESSEE ROADWAYS TONIGHT...EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION AS STREETS
MAY BECOME SLICK AFTER MIDNIGHT.

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>060-062>065-072100-
/O.NEW.KOHX.WW.Y.0015.131208T0300Z-131208T1500Z/
STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON-
HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE-
SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-
WILLIAMSON-MAURY-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DE KALB-WHITE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DOVER...CLARKSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...
GALLATIN...LAFAYETTE...CELINA...BYRDSTOWN...CAMDEN...ERIN...
WAVERLY...DICKSON...ASHLAND CITY...NASHVILLE...LEBANON...
MOUNT JULIET...HARTSVILLE...CARTHAGE...GAINESBORO...COOKEVILLE...
LIVINGSTON...JAMESTOWN...LOBELVILLE...CENTERVILLE...HOHENWALD...
FRANKLIN...BRENTWOOD...COLUMBIA...MURFREESBORO...WOODBURY...
SMITHVILLE...SPARTA
341 AM CST SAT DEC 7 2013

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO
9 AM CST SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ICE ACCUMULATION...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9
PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CST SUNDAY.

* TIMING...STARTING ACROSS THE FAR SOUTH AROUND 9 PM THIS EVENING
  AND SPREADING NORTHWARD THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. LIGHT
  ICE ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BEGIN ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE
  40 CORRIDOR BY MIDNIGHT AND THEN SPREAD ACROSS NORTHERN MIDDLE
  TENNESSEE COUNTIES AFTER MIDNIGHT.

* MAIN IMPACT...TOTAL ACCUMULATION BETWEEN ONE AND TWO TENTHS OF
  AN INCH WILL CAUSE OVERNIGHT TRAVEL HAZARDS. ICE BUILDUP ON
  ELEVATED ROADWAYS...TREES AND POWER LINES IS LIKELY.

* OTHER IMPACTS...THOSE AREAS THAT RECEIVE NEAR TWO TENTHS OF AN
  INCH COULD EXPERIENCE POWER INTERRUPTIONS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SLEET OR FREEZING
RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY
ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.

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