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Winter Storm Watch

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Des Moines IA
349 AM CST Mon Dec 12 2022

...Freezing Rain Potential Late Tonight into Tuesday Morning...

.A large weather system will bring wintry precipitation and
increasing winds to the state later today into Tuesday. While
there could be drizzle or freezing drizzle this afternoon into
early this evening, potential impacts will increase tonight into
Tuesday morning. This is when the system will swing a shield of
wintry precipitation across Iowa. While much of this will fall as
rain, temperatures are forecast at or below freezing over
northern into parts of central Iowa tonight into Tuesday morning.
This is expected to result in freezing rain and ice accumulation,
though rain rates may lessen the accretion. There also remains a
fair amount of uncertainty with the temperature forecast and
therefore ice accumulations may go up or down as forecasts are
updated and trends are monitored over the next 24 hours. Winds
will increase through the day today into tonight with the
strongest winds on Tuesday and gusts of 40 to 50 mph likely.


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Emmet-Kossuth-Palo Alto-Pocahontas-Humboldt-Sac-Calhoun-Webster-
Carroll-Greene-
Including the cities of Estherville, Algona, Emmetsburg,
Pocahontas, Laurens, Rolfe, Fonda, Gilmore City, Humboldt,
Sac City, Lake View, Odebolt, Wall Lake, Schaller, Early,
Rockwell City, Manson, Lake City, Pomeroy, Fort Dodge, Carroll,
and Jefferson
349 AM CST Mon Dec 12 2022

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY
AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation possible. Total snow
  accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of around
  one tenth of an inch possible. Wind gust in excess of 40 mph are
  likely.

* WHERE...Parts of Northwest Iowa.

* WHEN...From late tonight through Tuesday afternoon.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions, especially for the
  Tuesday morning commute. Gusty winds could bring down tree
  branches.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.

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