Winter Storm Warning for Mid-South as Six Inches of Snow to Hit Ozarks

Winter storm warnings are in place for parts of 11 states as a "significant" storm front moving across the Mid-South on Monday will transition into a nor'easter over the mid-Atlantic and New England by Tuesday.

The National Weather Service issued alerts for Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia, warning of heavy rainfall, mountain snow and the possibility of flooding.

In its forecast, the NWS said that the storm would produce areas of heavy snow across the Ozarks in excess of six inches through Monday night, which is anticipated to transition into heavy snow over the northeast on Tuesday.

The primary corridor of heavy snow will likely be across central and eastern Pennsylvania and into northern New Jersey and southeastern New York.

"Many of these areas will see six to 12 inches of snow, with some areas especially over the higher elevations near the Poconos, Catskills, and adjacent areas of southern New England seeing in excess of 12 inches," the NWS said.

"The nor'easter will bring strong winds to the region on Tuesday which coupled with the heavy snowfall could damage trees and power lines. The strong winds will also bring a threat for coastal flooding."

In northeastern Oklahoma, up to six inches of snow is expected to fall until Monday evening, making travel difficult. This will continue into northwest Arkansas, where up to six inches of snow could fall in higher elevations.

Southeast Missouri will also be impacted, with 3-6 inches of snow anticipated into Monday evening.

On Tuesday, the Maryland panhandle and northern West Virginia could see rain transition into heavy, wet snow of accumulations of up to eight inches, with winds gusting as high as 45 miles an hour.

A swathe of central and eastern Pennsylvania will see wintry precipitation, with snowfall of up to nine inches making the morning commute potentially hazardous.

Up to a foot of snow is expected to fall in New York from midnight on Monday into Tuesday afternoon, with snowfall rates approaching two inches an hour in parts making travel very difficult to impossible. As much as a foot of snow is also anticipated for northern New Jersey.

Snowfall is set to increase to up to 13 inches across Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, with wind gusts as high as 50 miles an hour.

It comes following a severe thunderstorm that brought rain and hail to parts of Texas on Sunday, which is predicted to move across the mid-South and southeast at the start of this week.

The NWS said in its update that states in the Gulf of Mexico should expect "numerous areas of heavy showers and thunderstorms," with additional severe weather possible on Monday, such as damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes.

"In addition to the severe weather threat over the Southeast, heavy rainfall is expected, and there may be enough rain to produce isolated to widely scattered instances of flash flooding," the weather agency said.