An arctic airmass moved into West Central Texas on Monday. The combination of warm moist air overunning the low level cold air and a strong upper level disturbance produced mainly freezing rain and sleet across much of West Central Texas Tuesday and Tuesday night.
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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.
The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
An arctic airmass moved into West Central Texas on Monday. The combination of warm moist air overunning the low level cold air and a strong upper level disturbance produced mainly freezing rain and sleet across much of West Central Texas Tuesday and Tuesday night. The ice caused several accidents across the region on Tuesday and Tuesday night and many schools across the region had late starts on Wednesday.
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 26, 10:46 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1046 PM CST MON JAN 26 2009 .AVIATION... /00Z UPDATE/ ARCTIC FRONT HAS MOVED VERY SLOWLY THIS EVENING AND IS NOW JUST SOUTH OF KSJT AND KBBD. CONDITIONS NORTH OF THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT...AS FREEZING DRIZZLE AND FOG BECOMES MORE WIDESPREAD AND CIGS DROP. EXPECT WIDESPREAD FAIRLY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE SPREADING SOUTH WITH THE SURFACE FREEZING BOUNDARY. FRONT SHOULD BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 BY SUNRISE. KSJT AND EVENTUALLY KBBD MAY SEE FREEZING DRIZZLE BY SUNRISE WITH KJCT AND KSOA SOON AFTER. IFR CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS OVER ALL OF THE AREA. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 936 PM CST MON JAN 26 2009/ DISCUSSION... THE ARCTIC FRONT HAS CONTINUED ITS SLOW MOVEMENT SOUTH TONIGHT... PUSHING SOUTH OF THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND AREAS AS OF 9PM. CONSIDERING THIS AND THAT THE GFS IS HANDLING THIS ADVANCE POORLY WHILE THE NAM IS DOING MUCH BETTER...WILL UPDATE THE FORECAST GENERALLY FOLLOWING THE NAM SOLUTION. THIS PLUNGES TEMPERATURES AT KJCT TO BELOW FREEZING DURING THE DAY TOMORROW. THEY WILL ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR LIGHT PRECIPITATION AND/OR FOGGY CONDITIONS. SO...WILL EXTEND THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY TO THE SOUTH TO COVER THE REST OF THE CWA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CROCKETT COUNTY WHERE CONFIDENCE IS LOWER IN PRECIP AND COLDER TEMPERATURES. WILL BEGIN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES ADVISORY TOMORROW MORNING AT 12Z. WILL HAVE TO ADJUST THE TEMPERATURES FOR TOMORROW ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES TO SHOW WARMEST READINGS IN THE MORNING WITH STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING TEMPS INTO THE AFTERNOON. UPDATED PRODUCTS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. 20 PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 524 PM CST MON JAN 26 2009/ AVIATION... /00Z UPDATE/ ARCTIC FRONT HAS MOVED VERY LITTLE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS AND IS STILL STUCK SOMEWHERE BETWEEN KABI AND KSJT LATE THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS NORTH OF THE FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THROUGH TONIGHT...AS DRIZZLE AND FOG BECOMES MORE WIDESPREAD AND CIGS DROP. WITH TEMPS AT OR BELOW FREEZING...EXPECT WIDESPREAD FAIRLY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE. FRONT IS STILL EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH KSJT BY AROUND SUNSET...AND SHOULD BE LOCATED ALONG THE INTERSTATE BY MIDNIGHT. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...INCREASING MOISTURE WILL KEEP IFR OR LOW MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS IN PLACE...BUT CONDITIONS WILL ALSO DETERIORATE AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE AS WELL. KSJT AND EVENTUALLY KBBD MAY WELL SEE FREEZING DRIZZLE MOVE INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT OR TUESDAY MORNING. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 321 PM CST MON JAN 26 2009/ SHORT TERM... INTERESTING WINTER WEATHER EVENT SETTING UP THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...MAINLY TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. FIRST...AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ALONG A MIDLAND TO STERLING CITY TO GAINESVILLE LINE. TEMPERATURES TO THE NORTH WERE IN THE LOWER 30S ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY...WITH 20S ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA...AND IN THE UPPER TEENS ACROSS THE PANHANDLE. TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT...TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE MID 60S TO LOWER 70S...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 50S. SOME ISTENTROPIC LIFT OVER THE ARCTIC BOUNDARY WAS PRODUCING PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. WV IMAGERY WAS INDICATING AN UPPER LEVEL TROF ACROSS THE INTER-MOUNTAIN WEST...AND A STRONG 300 MB JET OF 120 TO 140 KNOTS FROM THE FOUR CORNERS REGION TO THE GREAT LAKES. THE ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT...WITH SHALLOW COLD AIR ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA BY LATE THIS EVENING. LOW LEVEL ISTENTROPIC LIFT WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...ALONG WITH 850 MB SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST FLOW OF 35 TO 40 KNOTS. THE PRECIP TYPE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WILL BE -FZRA/FZDZ DUE TO A WARM LAYER WITH TEMPS OF AROUND 10 DEG C. WILL KEEP THE PCPN TYPE AS MAINLY -RA ACROSS THE I-10 CORRIDOR FOR TONIGHT. LOOKS LIKE ICE AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHT TONIGHT AND TUESDAY...LESS THAN 1/10 OF AN INCH. THE BEST CHANCE FOR ICY ROADS WILL BE ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. FREEZING RAIN MAY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...DUE TO AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROF MOVING BY AND STRONG MID LEVEL FRONTOGENSIS. ICE AMOUNTS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT WILL BE 1/10 TO 2/10 OF AN INCH...MAINLY EAST OF A BRADY TO THROCKMORTON LINE. ALSO...SOME SLEET WILL MIX WITH THE FZRA ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. IF THE 12Z GFS QPF AMOUNTS ARE RIGHT...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY FOR MORE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT HAZARDS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. FOR NOW...WILL GO WITH A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY FOR TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING...AND THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND FOR AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE VERY COLD TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH LOWS MAINLY IN THE 20S AND HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S TO MID 30S. LONG TERM... WEATHER WILL IMPROVE BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...WITH HIGHS WARMING INTO THE MID 40S TO MID 50S. UPPER LEVEL ZONAL INTO THIS WEEKEND...WITH MODERATING TEMPERATURES. ALSO...A DRY FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 36 24 28 25 45 / 30 30 40 60 10 SAN ANGELO 62 28 31 27 49 / 20 20 30 50 10 JUNCTION 66 33 36 33 50 / 20 20 20 70 20 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: CALLAHAN...FISHER...HASKELL...JONES...NOLAN... SHACKELFORD...TAYLOR...THROCKMORTON. FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BROWN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO...IRION... MCCULLOCH...RUNNELS...SAN SABA...STERLING...TOM GREEN. FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FROM 6 AM TUESDAY TO 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: KIMBLE...MASON...MENARD...SCHLEICHER... SUTTON. && 99/99/15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 256 PM CST MON JAN 26 2009 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-272100- FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO- CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD- TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE- MASON- 256 PM CST MON JAN 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AREAS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...WITH ICY AREAS DEVELOPING. AS TEMPERATURES COOL ACROSS THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND BEHIND THE ARCTIC FRONT...AREAS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE MAY DEVELOP FARTHER SOUTH INTO THE SAN ANGELO...BRADY...AND BROWNWOOD AREAS WELL. A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE AREAS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY...WITH A LITTLE HEAVIER FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. WITH THE THREAT OF SOME ICE ACCUMULATION...THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY WILL EXTEND INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELER SHOULD STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
12 ice storm, 8 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported 1/4 inch of ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy. There were 5 to 7 accidents reported.
Law enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. Also, 1/2 inch of ice, sleet and snow was reported in Rochester. Several accidents were reported along US Highway 277.
Law Enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy.
Law Enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/2 inch of ice and sleet was reported in Hawley.
Law Enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice and sleet was reported in Buffalo Gap and at KTXS TV in Abilene. Some flights were canceled.
Law Enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy. At least two accidents were reported.
Law Enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice and sleet was reported in Sweetwater.
Law Enforcement reported ice and sleet across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1.5 inches of ice and sleet was reported in Baird and around 1/4 inch of ice was reported in Putnam.
Law Enforcement reported 1/2 to 3/4 inch of ice or more on the divide and on roads across the county. The roads were icy.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice and sleet was reported in Brownwood. Several accidents were reported along highway US 183 between Rising Star and May.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. Barnhart reported 1/4 inch of freezing rain and sleet.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice was reported 4 miles north of Water Valley.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice was reported in Paint Rock.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice was reported near Richland Springs.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice and sleet was reported in Barnhart.
Law Enforcement reported freezing rain across the county. The roads were icy. Also, 1/4 inch of ice was reported in Menard.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 150745, 150759, 150760, 150770, 150771, 150772, 150773, 150775, 148463, 148465, 148467, 148472, 148473, 148474, 148475, 148476, 148480, 148490, 148492, 148495.