Winter Storm, Carson
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carson forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.404, -101.354 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Texas, January 27 to 28, 2001
A strong storm system in the upper atmosphere moved eastward across the southern Rockies and into the Texas panhandle. followed by heavy snowfall across the western and central sections of the Texas panhandle while significant accumulations of sleet and freezing rain fell over the eastern and southeastern sections along with some snowfall.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 20 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
- 20
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 AMA wrote it up.
A strong storm system in the upper atmosphere moved eastward across the southern Rockies and into the Texas panhandle. This storm system produced a layer of ice...followed by heavy snowfall across the western and central sections of the Texas panhandle while significant accumulations of sleet and freezing rain fell over the eastern and southeastern sections along with some snowfall. The heavy snowfall amounts ranged from six to nine inches in the western and central Texas panhandle to between eight and twelve inches across the northern sections. The eastern and southeastern sections of the Texas panhandle picked up between one quarter and one inch of sleet and ice along with two to four inches of snow. Some roads and highways were closed because of the accumulations of ice and snow and several accidents were reported with only minor injuries.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 27, 9:36 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 9:36 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 845 AM CST SAT JAN 27 2001 ...CORRECTED TO ADD ZONE HIGHLIGHTS AT BOTTOM... STRONG WAA REGIME UNDERNEATH DIFLUENT UPR LVL FLOW HAS ALLOWED FOR HVY PRECIP TO BREAK OUT ACROSS ERN NM AND W TX. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE LTG STRIKES BY EARLY AFTN AS MID LVL LAPSE RATES INCR TO NEAR 7 DEG C/KM. RECENT COORD CALLS TO SWRN ZONES INDICATE PRECIP INITIALLY STARTED OUT AS SN AND PL...BUT HAS SWITCHED TO ZR. WILL BE UPDATING ZONES SHORTLY TO EMPHASIZED MORE OF A MIXED BAG...MAINLY PL AND ZR...A LITTLE MORE HEAVILY FOR THE FIRST PERIOD. .AMA... TX...WINTER STORM WARNING...TODAY |THROUGH SUN MORNING. TXZ001>020. OK...WINTER STORM WARNING...TODAY THROUGH SUN MORNING. OKZ001>003. JH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
12 heavy snow, 8 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Deaf Smith
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Deaf Smith forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.966, -102.605 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Oldham
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Oldham forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.405, -102.603 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Potter
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Potter forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -101.894 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Randall
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Randall forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.966, -101.897 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Hemphill
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hemphill forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.838, -100.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Armstrong
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Armstrong forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.965, -101.357 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Collingsworth
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Collingsworth forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.965, -100.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Donley
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Donley forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.965, -100.814 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Gray
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gray forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -100.813 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Wheeler
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -100.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Dallam
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dallam forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -102.602 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Hansford
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hansford forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -101.354 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Hartley
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hartley forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.840, -102.603 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Hutchinson
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.840, -101.355 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Moore
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Moore forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.838, -101.893 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Ochiltree
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ochiltree forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -100.816 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Sherman
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sherman forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -101.893 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Storm, Roberts
- When
- January 27, 12:00 PM CST to January 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.839, -100.813 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow, Lipscomb
- When
- January 28, 5:00 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -100.273 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Winter Storm
- A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, January 27 to 28, 2001
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 27 to 28, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 27 to 28, 2001
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 27 to 29, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 27, 2001
- Ice Storm and Heavy Snow in Kansas, January 27 to 29, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 27, 2001
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 27 to 28, 2001
- Strong Wind in Virginia, January 27, 2001
- Strong Wind in Maryland, January 27, 2001
- Strong Wind and Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 27, 2001
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, January 27 to 28, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 2001
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: 5228238, 5228239, 5228240, 5228241, 5228242, 5228243, 5228244, 5228245, 5228246, 5228247, 5228248, 5228249, 5228250, 5228251, 5228252, 5228254, 5228255, 5228256, 5228257, 5228253.