Winter Weather, Yoakum
- When
- January 23, 7:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Yoakum forecast zone
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.173, -102.828 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather in Texas, January 23, 2007
An upper level storm system stalled over northern Mexico and the southwest Texas Big Bend during the overnight and early morning hours of the 22nd and the 23rd. A broad area of wintry precipitation developed over the Texas Trans Pecos region and the plains of southeastern New Mexico.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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
- 3
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 LUB wrote it up.
An upper level storm system stalled over northern Mexico and the southwest Texas Big Bend during the overnight and early morning hours of the 22nd and the 23rd. A broad area of wintry precipitation developed over the Texas Trans Pecos region and the plains of southeastern New Mexico. This activity spread northeastward over the southwestern portion of the west Texas South Plains around sunrise on the 23rd. Several hours of light snow resulted in minor accumulations.
Snow accumulation reports are noted as follows: 3 inches at Wellman (Terry County), 2 inches at Denver City (Yoakum County), 1 inch at Brownfield (Terry County), 1 inch at O'Donnell (Lynn County), 1 inch at Wells (Lynn County).
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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 23, 3:55 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 3:55 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 355 AM CST TUE JAN 23 2007 .SHORT TERM... AN EXPANSIVE SNOW SHIELD OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND THE PERMIAN BASIN/TRAN PECOS CONTINUES TO GRADUALLY SHIFT NORTHWARD TOWARD THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. THIS AS DIFFLUENT MID LEVEL FLOW/DEFORMATION ZONE SPREADS EAST IN ADVANCE OF THE NORTHERN MEXICO UPPER LOW. REGIONAL RADARS INDICATE THAT THE SNOW HAS HAD A DIFFICULT TIME MOVING ACROSS THE FA BORDER...BUT T/TD SPREADS ARE LOWERING AS THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE SATURATES AND BECOMES MORE FAVORABLE FOR MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION. MEANWHILE...VERY COLD TEMPERATURES ARE BEING OBSERVED THIS MORNING OVER THE SNOW PACK...WITH LOWS APPROACHING 0 DEGREES F OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST PANHANDLE PER THE WTM. CURRENT TRENDS WARRANT CHANCE GRIDDED POPS FOR SNOW TO BEGIN THE PERIOD OVER THE FAR SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. ANY ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LESS THAN AN INCH. SOLUTIONS/SATELLITE TRENDS SUGGEST THE LOW IS SHIFTING EAST TOWARD NORTHERN CHIHUAHUA. HOWEVER THE DIFFLUENT MID LEVEL FLOW IS PROGGED BECOME LESS DEFINED AND SHIFT EASTWARD BY AFTERNOON...AND THE UPPER LOW WILL RETROGRADE BACK TOWARD SONORA. THUS WILL INDICATE DECREASING POPS BELOW MENTIONABLE LEVELS BY AFTERNOON. CLOUDS ALSO WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE THROUGH THE DAY AND INTO THIS EVENING. AS THE UPPER LOW RETROGRADES...A COL WILL BECOME MORE DOMINANT OVER THE AREA. WITH ASSOCIATED SHORTWAVE RIDING OVER SOUTHERN ROCKIES/PLAINS...A REINFORCING SHOT OF DRY GREAT BASIN AIR WILL PUSH OVER THE DIVIDE AND SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON/ EVENING. GIVEN THE MAGNITUDE OF DRY AIR BEHIND THE WIND SHIFT...WILL DEPICT BELOW GUIDANCE TEMP MINIMA OVER THE SNOW PACK. .LONG TERM... MED RANGE GUIDANCE IS IN REMARKABLY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH ABOUT 12Z FRI WITH THE EVOLUTION/LOCATION OF THE H5 LOW CENTER...SHOWING A SLOW SWWD MOTION WED AND THU AND THEN BEGINNING A NEWD MOTION ON FRI. THIS WOULD PLACE IT MOST LIKELY SOMEWHERE WEST OF EL PASO FRI MORNING. EXPECT QUIET WX WED AND THU FOR THE CWA...WITH PERHAPS SOME MID-LVL CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE WEST AND SOUTH ZONES BUT THE LOW SHOULD BE TOO FAR AWAY FOR ANY PRECIP CHCS. SFC RIDGE SLOWLY SETTLES OVER AREA AND WITH LIGHT N-NE FLOW COMING OFF THE SNOWPACK....EXPECT ONLY A GRADUAL WARMING TREND AND WILL CONTINUE TO UNDERCUT GUIDANCE. WEEKEND WX DEPENDS UPON EVENTUAL PATH OF THE UPPER LOW. LOW SHOULD FINALLY EJECT AS REX BLOCK BREAKS DOWN WITH THE NEXT UPPER LOW MOVING INTO THE WEST COAST. GREATER VARIANCE OF MODEL SOLUTIONS OCCUR WITH THE EJECTION PROCESS...CMC APPEARS SLOWEST...WITH THE GFS THE FASTEST AND FARTHEST NORTH. DPROG/DT ALSO SHOW A SLIGHT SLOWER TREND. A BLEND OF MOST SOLUTIONS WILL TAKE THE LOW CENTER ACROSS THE SPLNS AND PANHANDLE FRIDAY THROUGH EARLY SAT. HAVE DECIDED TO ADJUST POPS UPWARD SLIGHTLY DURING THIS PERIOD CWA-WIDE DUE TO THE LIFT/MOISTURE WITH THE LOW. MEANWHILE...STRONG SHTWV MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL CANADA INTO THE MIDWEST WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT INTO THE SRN PLAINS ON SAT. AM WARY OF THE WARMER GUIDANCE TEMPS FOR SAT DUE TO POTENTIAL FOR CLOUD COVER/LIGHT PRECIP AS UPR LOW PASSES BY AND THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONT. UPSLOPE FLOW SUN INTO MON SHOULD CONTINUE THE COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS AND PERHAPS BRING LOW STRATUS TO THE CAPROCK BUT PRECIP CHCS LOOK MINIMAL UNDER DRY ZONAL FLOW. MONDAY NIGHT OR TUESDAY MAY SEE ANOTHER INFLUX OF MODIFIED CP AIR INTO WTX AND ANOTHER SHTWV TROUGH MAY APPROACH BY MIDWEEK...THUS COOL CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 39 15 37 19 45 / 10 10 10 10 10 TULIA 40 18 40 22 47 / 10 10 0 0 10 PLAINVIEW 41 19 40 22 47 / 10 10 10 10 10 LEVELLAND 41 20 41 23 46 / 20 10 10 10 10 LUBBOCK 42 22 45 22 47 / 10 10 10 10 10 BROWNFIELD 41 21 43 24 46 / 30 10 10 10 10 CHILDRESS 45 26 45 26 49 / 10 0 0 0 0 SPUR 43 26 46 25 48 / 10 10 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 45 26 49 29 50 / 10 10 10 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 20/33
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 23, 5:43 AM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 543 AM CST TUE JAN 23 2007 TXZ021>044-241145- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 543 AM CST TUE JAN 23 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AN AREA OF SNOW SHOWERS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN PERMIAN BASIN THIS MORNING WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS THROUGH NOON TODAY BUT WILL DECREASE IN INTENSITY. ANY ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LESS THAN AN INCH AND MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PLAINS...TO BROWNFIELD...TO TAHOKA. ISOLATED LOCATIONS IN THIS AREA COULD RECEIVE NEAR AN INCH OF SNOWFALL....AND CAUSE ROADS AND AND OVERPASSES TO BECOME SLICK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Winter Weather, Terry
- When
- January 23, 7:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Terry forecast zone
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.174, -102.335 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather, Lynn
- When
- January 23, 7:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lynn forecast zone
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.177, -101.816 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5426, 5428, 5430.