WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM SATURDAY TO 5 AM EST SUNDAY. 6-8 INCHES OF SNOW
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM SATURDAY TO 5 AM EST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW...THEN SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM SATURDAY TO 5 AM EST SUNDAY. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED WINTER STORM WATCH. * LOCATIONS...EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR THROUGH NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 78. * ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 6 TO 8 INCHES...ALONG WITH AROUND ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF ICE. * TIMING...SNOW IS ANTICIPATED TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA DURING SATURDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE SATURDAY EVENING. THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO A PERIOD OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE TAPERING OFF EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. * HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES... SHOULD OCCUR BETWEEN 3 PM AND MIDNIGHT WHEN SNOWFALL MAY ACCUMULATE ONE INCH AN HOUR AT TIMES WITH VISIBILITY RESTRICTED AT TIMES TO LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE 20S THROUGH THE ENTIRE STORM...POSSIBLY DOWN INTO THE TEENS AT TIMES IN THE POCONOS AND THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SUSSEX COUNTY NJ. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL ON SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY ROADS. BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES TEND TO ICE UP FIRST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.
Instructions:
NONE
Address/Location
Hackettstown Police Department
215 Stiger St
Hackettstown, NJ 07840
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 908-852-3302
TEXT-A-TIP - Text TIP HACKPD followed by your message, to 888777
Alert Details
- Severity:
- Minor - Minimal to no known threat to life or property
- Urgency:
- Unknown - Urgency not known
- Certainty:
- Likely (p > ~50%)
- Category:
- Meteorological (inc. flood)
- Event:
- Winter Storm Warning