Winter storm threatens travel in southern US

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Icy travel and snowfall are expected the rest of the week in the Southern states. Snow is forecast to turn into rain and eventually ice, creating hazardous travel conditions into this weekend.

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00:00Everything starts to explode on the radar tomorrow morning. There it goes ice a lot of sleet with this

00:05This is gonna be a huge sleet storm in Dallas. I don't know if any of you remember the Thanksgiving Day

00:11Football game in Dallas between Miami and Dallas. That was the famous Leon Lett game

00:17I believe when they blocked the kick and then he touched it in Miami and up winning

00:21But anyway, that's not important. The important was how much sleet fell

00:23That's what it's gonna look like in Dallas

00:25If you can remember that game and what it looked like at Old Cowboy Stadium

00:30That's what it's going to look like in Dallas tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening

00:33Here comes the snow from Fort Smith toward Little Rock toward Memphis. That'll be around midnight in Nashville

00:39Snow begins around 5 6 7 o'clock in the morning, and I'm gonna say this

00:44Interstate 40 from Fort Smith to Nashville. I think there's sections of that road that will be completely shut down

00:51Do not go on that roadway tomorrow, I think it's snow covered it's gonna be very slippery

00:55There could be some sleet with that as well

00:57It's gonna thump snow by the way in Dallas beginning around midnight tomorrow night in the 7 a.m

01:03Friday a chilly rain in Jackson toward Montgomery and look at this

01:07There will be accumulating snow that goes over to some ice then rain in northern parts of Alabama and Mississippi even Atlanta

01:14I think you're gonna get a few flakes of snow and some ice that eventually

01:18Transitions to some rain how much snow a solid three to six inches from Nashville all the way toward Dallas even toward the Abilene area

01:25Here now north of Dallas there may be a little more than that where we get six plus inches

01:30But the main story is we're gonna be looking at icy travel here

01:33I want to show you the winter cast if you live in Dallas if you live in Oklahoma City if you live in Little Rock

01:38Check out our winter cast and their surrounding areas because you could see what's going on here. It's a very unlikely in Little Rock

01:45We're gonna get over six inches, but it is somewhat likely we can get below three so best case scenario

01:51It's an inch or two worst case scenario. It's five to six inches

01:54There's also going to be some ice with this

01:57Texas as we get in the Thursday night Friday Friday in the Friday night across the southeast the southern areas Atlanta Birmingham

02:03You'll transition to rain, but expect icy travel for a time

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