Winter Storm Warning

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
1104 AM EST SUN MAR 2 2014

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SOUTHERN BALTIMORE-SHENANDOAH-FREDERICK VA-PAGE-WARREN-CLARKE-
RAPPAHANNOCK-LOUDOUN-NORTHERN FAUQUIER-HAMPSHIRE-BERKELEY-
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INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREDERICK...WESTMINSTER...
GAITHERSBURG...COLUMBIA...BALTIMORE...WINCHESTER...FRONT ROYAL...
WASHINGTON...LEESBURG...WARRENTON...MARTINSBURG...CHARLES TOWN...
MOOREFIELD...PETERSBURG
1104 AM EST SUN MAR 2 2014

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING
TO 6 PM EST MONDAY...

* PRECIPITATION TYPE...FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND HEAVY SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...UP TO ONE TENTH INCH ICE...THEN 8 TO 12 INCHES
  OF SNOW.

* TIMING...RAIN CHANGES TO FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FROM NORTH TO
  SOUTH THIS EVENING THEN BECOMES HEAVY SNOW LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
  MONDAY.

* TEMPERATURES...LOWER 30S THIS EVENING TO THE MID 20S OVERNIGHT...THEN
  LOWER 20S THROUGH MONDAY.

* WINDS...NORTH 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH.

* IMPACTS...VERY HAZARDOUS TRAVEL THIS EVENING TROUGH MONDAY...
  AFFECTING BOTH THE MONDAY MORNING AND MONDAY AFTERNOON PEAK
  COMMUTE HOURS. POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE COMBINATION
  OF ICE AND HEAVY SNOW.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS WINTER STORM WARNING IS FOR HEAVY SNOW...SLEET...AND
FREEZING RAIN AND MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ICE AND SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT
WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY CAUSE POWER OUTAGES.
ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA
FLASHLIGHT... FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN
EMERGENCY.