UPDATE: Powerful Storm Approaching Plainview

A powerful storm system cruising across the Midwest has the potential to bring several inches of snow, powerful winds and coastal flooding to the Plainview area over the next 24 hours.

The National Weather Service says forecast models still haven't pinpointed the exact path and timing of the system. The Midwestern storm could intensify and combine with an ocean system and become another nor'easter, some forecast models project.

Meteorologists now call for the storm to strike Wednesday afternoon and into the overnight period. Snow could still be falling Thursday morning.

But the type of preciptation is a question mark: Forecasters say it's too early to say whether the moisture will come in the form of rain or snow when it arrives in the Plainview area.

See the Weather Channel's current and projected storm data here for Plainview.

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The National Weather Service forecast calls for possibly several inches of snow, winds of 35 to 45 mph and gusts up to 60 mph and minor to moderate coastal flooding. High surf and significant beach erosion, especially to those beaches still battered from Hurricane Sandy, is also expected from the storm system.

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