A winter storm system over the Four Corners region tracked east toward the northern Texas Panhandle during the nighttime hours and produced heavy snow by morning. Four inches of snow was reported at Spearman in Hansford County and four inches of snow was reported fifteen miles south of Perryton in Ochiltree County.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
A winter storm system over the Four Corners region tracked east toward the northern Texas Panhandle during the nighttime hours and produced heavy snow by morning. Four inches of snow was reported at Spearman in Hansford County and four inches of snow was reported fifteen miles south of Perryton in Ochiltree County.
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 Dec 27, 3:14 PM CST, 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
314 PM CST THU DEC 27 2007
.DISCUSSION...
BUSY FIRST PERIOD OF FORECAST. MODELS AGREE THAT UPPER LOW WILL PUSH
INTO NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS EVENING. UNCERTAINITY CREEPS IN AS
TO WHERE THE SURFACE LOW WILL DEVELOP. MOST MODELS INDICATE A BROAD
SURFACE LOW OVER WEST TEXAS...BUT A DEVELOPING LOW SOUTHEAST OF THE
TEXAS PANHANDLE BY MIDNIGHT. THIS FEATURE ALONG WITH A DEEPER UPPER
LOW WILL ALLOW GOOD WRAP AROUND SNOWFALL INTO THE NORTHEAST TEXAS
PANHANDLE. THEREFORE...EXPANDED HEAVY SNOW WARNING FROM THE OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE INTO THIS AREA AS WELL. HAVE MAINTAINED SNOW ADVISORY FOR
REMAINDER OF TEXAS PANHANDLE. LIGHT SNOWS ALREADY OCCURRING...SO
ANOTHER ONE TO THREE INCHES NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. OTHER FIRST
PERIOD PROBLEM IS FREEZING FOG. WILL CONTINUE AN ADVISORY FOR DENSE
FREEZING FOG THROUGH MIDNIGHT WHEN FRONT FINALLY SWEEPS THROUGH AREA.
DID NOT DO A LOT OF TWEEKING TO REMAINDER OF FORECAST. DEPENDING ON
SNOWFALL...MAX TEMPERATURES COULD TAKE A BEATING TOMORROW.
OTHERWISE...FORECAST OF DEVELOPING ZONAL FLOW AND RIDGING BY THE
MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK LOOKS GOOD. APPEARS NEXT FORECAST PROBLEM JUST
BEYOND THE HORIZON OF THE DAY SEVEN FORECAST.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMARILLO TX 19 37 17 38 20 / 70 0 0 0 0
BEAVER OK 18 33 9 36 14 / 90 10 0 0 0
BOISE CITY OK 11 32 11 38 16 / 80 0 0 0 0
BORGER TX 22 37 20 42 24 / 80 0 0 0 0
BOYS RANCH TX 16 37 15 41 19 / 70 0 0 0 0
CANYON TX 19 40 17 42 19 / 70 0 0 0 0
CLARENDON TX 23 41 21 45 23 / 60 0 0 0 0
DALHART TX 13 32 11 37 15 / 80 0 0 0 0
GUYMON OK 16 32 11 41 15 / 90 5 0 0 0
HEREFORD TX 17 40 19 44 22 / 50 0 0 0 0
LIPSCOMB TX 23 36 14 36 16 / 90 10 0 0 0
PAMPA TX 23 35 22 39 25 / 80 0 0 0 0
SHAMROCK TX 25 42 21 44 22 / 80 0 0 0 0
WELLINGTON TX 25 44 22 48 25 / 40 0 0 0 0
&&
.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FREEZING FOG ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: ARMSTRONG...CARSON...COLLINGSWORTH...
DALLAM...DEAF SMITH...DONLEY...GRAY...HANSFORD...HARTLEY...
HEMPHILL...HUTCHINSON...LIPSCOMB...MOORE...OCHILTREE...
OLDHAM...POTTER...RANDALL...ROBERTS...SHERMAN...WHEELER.
HEAVY SNOW WARNING UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: HANSFORD...HEMPHILL...HUTCHINSON...LIPSCOMB...
OCHILTREE...ROBERTS.
SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
ARMSTRONG...CARSON...COLLINGSWORTH...DALLAM...DEAF SMITH...
DONLEY...GRAY...HARTLEY...MOORE...OLDHAM...POTTER...
RANDALL...SHERMAN...WHEELER.
OK...FREEZING FOG ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: BEAVER...CIMARRON...TEXAS.
HEAVY SNOW WARNING UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: BEAVER...CIMARRON...TEXAS.
&&
GARCIA/JORDAN/BILODEAUTEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 330 PM CST THU DEC 27 2007 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-281200- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 330 PM CST THU DEC 27 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... A HEAVY SNOW WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLES THROUGH 6 AM CST FRIDAY. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD RANGE BETWEEN THREE AND SIX INCHES IN THE WARNING AREA. A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH 6 AM CST FRIDAY. IN THE ADVISORY AREA...TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD RANGE BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES. A DENSE FREEZING FOG ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. FREEZING FOG WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO AT OR BELOW ONE QUARTER OF A MILE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO. JORDAN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Four inches of snow was reported at Spearman.
Four inches of snow was reported fifteen miles south of Perryton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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