 Thereafter, 3–6 hours of freezing rain and sleet fell.The second bout of wintry precipitation, which lasted about 13 hours, was caused by a surface cyclone in the southern stream of the Westerlies which moved northeast from the coastal bend of Texas early on December 22, moving across northern Louisiana, southeast Arkansas, northwest Mississippi, then across central Tennessee, through western West Virginia early on December 23, eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania.Over of snow fell across portions of southern Illinois and central Ohio.