Winter Storm Watch

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
337 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH TEXAS FROM
THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON NORTH OF A
LINE FROM TEMPLE TO GROESBECK TO PALESTINE. A QUARTER
INCH OR MORE OF FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SOME
SLEET IS EXPECTED OVER THE COURSE OF THE WEEKEND...

.A STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT HAS MOVED ACROSS ALL OF
NORTH TEXAS AND TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEARLY STEADY
OR SLOWLY FALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY. FREEZING
PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN THIS EVENING IN
THE NORTH AND SPREAD SOUTH THROUGH THE NIGHT. PERIODS
OF FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND
WITH TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF AT LEAST ONE QUARTER OF
AN INCH. AS THE DEPTH OF THE COLD AIRMASS INCREASES...
SOME SLEET WILL MIXWITH THE FREEZING RAIN ACROSS
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY INTO
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

THE GROUND TEMPERATURE AT THIS TIME IS VERY
WARM BUT BRIDGES AND OVER PASSES WILL ICE QUICKLY
PRESENTING AN IMMEDIATE DANGER TO DRIVERS.
HOWEVER...ROADWAYS WILLINITIALLY REMAIN ICE FREE
FOR A FEW HOURS LONGER...UNTIL THE GROUND COOLS
SUFFICIENTLY TO SUPPORT ICE ACCUMULATION.

TXZ094-095-104>107-118>121-123-130>134-141>145-171745-
/O.CON.KFWD.WS.A.0001.060218T0000Z-060220T0000Z/
FANNIN-LAMAR-COLLIN-HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-TARRANT-DALLAS-ROCKWALL-
KAUFMAN-RAINS-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-JOHNSON-ELLIS-COMANCHE-MILLS-
HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BONHAM...PARIS...PLANO...GREENVILLE...
COMMERCE...COOPER...SULPHUR SPRINGS...FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...
DALLAS...ROCKWALL...TERRELL...KAUFMAN...FORNEY...EMORY...POINT...
EAST TAWAKONI...STEPHENVILLE...DUBLIN...GRANBURY...
OAK TRAIL SHORES...GLEN ROSE...CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE...
ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN...GLENN HEIGHTS...COMANCHE...DE LEON...
GOLDTHWAITE...HAMILTON...HICO...CLIFTON...MERIDIAN...
VALLEY MILLS...HILLSBORO
337 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006

...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS
EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...