Ice Storm, Van Zandt
- When
- January 7, 10:00 PM CST to January 8, 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Van Zandt forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 32.564, -95.836 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Ice Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
Freezing rain during the night and early morning hours made travel hazardous.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Freezing rain during the night and early morning hours made travel hazardous. (See paragraph 1 under Mclennan County for a meteorological discussion of the event.)
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 ice storm. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Ice Storm
- Freezing rain accumulating a quarter inch or more of ice, or less where it caused significant damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in California, January 7 to 18, 1997
- Cold in Louisiana, January 7, 1997
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Dense Fog in Florida, January 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 7, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 7, 1997
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, January 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, January 7, 1997
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, January 7, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 7 to 8, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5590963.