Winter storm watch issued for Joplin area

(From the National Weather Service)

WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 9 PM SATURDAY THROUGH 3 PM SUNDAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

  LIMITED EXCESSIVE COLD RISK.
  LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK.

DISCUSSION...

WIND CHILL VALUES WILL RANGE FROM AROUND FIVE TO TEN DEGREES FOR
THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
MISSOURI.

SOUTHERLY WIND GUSTS OF AROUND 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTHEAST
KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN
OZARKS FROM 9 PM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH 3 PM SUNDAY. A WINTER
STORM IS EXPECTED TO BRING A SWATH OF ACCUMULATING SNOW TO
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS AND THE MISSOURI OZARKS FROM SATURDAY
NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA MAY RECEIVE MORE
THAN FOUR INCHES OF SNOWFALL. IT APPEARS THAT THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS
WILL OCCUR EAST OF HIGHWAY 65 WHERE FROM FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES OF
SNOW IS EXPECTED.

BITTERLY COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION BEHIND THIS
STORM SYSTEM LATE THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. HIGH
TEMPERATURES WILL FAIL TO WARM OUT OF THE SINGLE DIGITS
MONDAY...WHILE OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL DROP TO NEAR OR BELOW ZERO
SUNDAY AND MONDAY NIGHTS. DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS OF 10 TO
25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO WILL OCCUR AT TIMES SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
MONDAY NIGHT.

MORE WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL THEN BE POSSIBLE AROUND THE MIDDLE
OF NEXT WEEK.