Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas. Ice accumulations were mainly between one tenth and two|tenths of an inch with the primary accumulation areas being on area bridges and overpasses.
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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 SHV wrote it up.
Freezing rain mixed with sleet developed after midnight across the Middle Red River Valley of Northeast Texas...Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas. Ice accumulations were mainly between one tenth and two|tenths of an inch with the primary accumulation areas being on area bridges and overpasses. The ice accumulations extended as far south as Tyler and Longview, Texas and as far north and east as McCurtain County, Oklahoma into Southwest Arkansas from Prescott and near Magnolia Arkansas towards portions of extreme northern Caddo and Bossier Parishes in Northwest Louisiana.
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 27, 9:36 PM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
936 PM CST TUE JAN 27 2009
.DISCUSSION...
AFTER REVIEWING HPC PRECIPITATION GUIDANCE EARLIER THIS EVENING
ALONG WITH CURRENT TRENDS IN TEMPERATURES OVER THE PAST SEVERAL
HOURS...CHANGES IN THE ADVISORY AND WARNING GRIDS HAVE BEEN MADE
FOR THIS EVENINGS PACKAGE.
LATEST SURFACE TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS ACROSS THE REGION HAVE
BEEN TRENDING TOWARD THE GFS MOS SOLUTION WHICH KEEPS EL DORADO...
MONROE...SHREVEPORT AND LUFKIN ABOVE FREEZING THROUGH THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS.
BASED ON THIS GUIDANCE ALONG WITH COORDINATION FROM SURROUNDING OFFICES...
THE ICE STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL AREAS EXCEPT
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. FOR THE
COUNTIES AND PARISHES THAT WERE ORIGINALLY IN THE ICE STORM
WARNING...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS REPLACED THE WARNING. THIS
IS ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM JACKSONVILLE
TEXAS TO SHREVEPORT AND FARMERVILLE LOUISIANA. ALL OTHER
ADVISORIES SOUTH OF THIS LINE HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.
JUST A REMINDER THAT ALTHOUGH THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
MANY LOCATIONS...AN ADVISORY STILL IMPLIES THAT ICING IS EXPECTED
TO OCCUR. HOWEVER...WIDESPREAD DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH EXTENSIVE ACCUMULATIONS
ARE NOT ANTICIPATED.
&&
.AVIATION...
COLD FRONT NEAR A MLU-DRI LINE THIS EVENING WILL CONTINUE MOVING
EAST TONIGHT. THIS WILL BRING NORTHERLY WINDS AND COLD AIR ADVECTION
TO ALL OF THE AREA. WINDS SPEEDS GENERALLY IN THE 10 TO 15 MPH
RANGE. WIDESPREAD IFR CIGS FOLLOWING THE FRONT...WITH VSBYS
OCCASIONALLY IFR IN RAIN AND FOG. CONDITIONS WILL SLOWLY IMPROVE
FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER 12Z...BECOMING MVFR CIGS WITH NO VSBY
RESTRICTIONS EXPECTED. LOOK FOR RAIN CHANGING TO FREEZING RAIN AFTER
04Z...NORTH AND WEST OF A DEQ-JDD LINE...SPREADING SOUTH AND EAST
TO A ELD-JSO LINE BY 10Z. /14/
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV 31 41 28 55 32 / 100 30 0 0 0
MLU 40 42 26 51 31 / 70 60 0 0 0
DEQ 28 38 27 50 27 / 100 20 0 0 0
TXK 29 36 26 53 34 / 90 20 0 0 0
ELD 30 37 25 53 31 / 100 30 0 0 0
TYR 30 38 28 54 33 / 90 20 0 0 0
GGG 30 37 28 55 31 / 90 30 0 0 0
LFK 34 47 31 55 31 / 70 40 0 0 0
&&
.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 12 PM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073.
LA...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 12 PM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: LAZ001>004-006.
OK...ICE STORM WARNING UNTIL 12 PM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: OKZ077.
TX...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 12 PM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ097-112-125-126-136>138-149>151.
ICE STORM WARNING UNTIL 12 PM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: TXZ096-108>111-124.
&&
05/14HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1002 PM CST TUE JAN 27 2009 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-290415- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1002 PM CST TUE JAN 27 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... AN ICE STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A DE QUEEN ARKANSAS... DAINGERFIELD TEXAS AND MINEOLA TEXAS LINE. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY SOUTH AND EAST OF THIS LINE TO NEAR A FARMERVILLE LOUISIANA TO A JACKSONVILLE TEXAS LINE. PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN...OCCASIONALLY MIXED WITH SLEET...ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER INCH WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO A PORTION OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. SOME ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO ONE HALF INCH MAY OCCUR NEAR THE RED RIVER AND IN MCCURTAIN COUNTY. OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...EXTREME NORTHERN LOUISIANA NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20...AND THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...ICE ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN ONE QUARTER INCH ARE EXPECTED. THE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... OTHER THAN THE CONTINUATION OF WINTER WEATHER INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
9 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Trace amounts of freezing rain resulted in a few slick bridges and overpasses across the county.
Freezing rain resulted in ice accumulations near one tench of an inch across area bridges and overpasses. There were a few vehicular accidents reported across the county as well.
Trace amounts of freezing rain across the county resulted in a few icy bridges.
Trace amounts of freezing rain resulted in a few icy bridges and overpasses across the county.
Freezing rain accumulation near one tenth of an inch resulted in most bridges and overpasses across the county becoming iced up. There were a few vehicular accidents reported across the county.
Freezing rain accumulations near one tenth of an inch were reported across the county. Several bridges and overpasses were iced over. A few vehicular accidents were reported.
Trace amounts of freezing rain were reported across the county.
Trace amounts of freezing rain were reported across the county.
Freezing rain accumulation near one tenth of an inch resulted in icy bridges and overpasses. A few vehicular accidents were reported as well.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 2009
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: 149962, 149964, 149959, 149961, 149957, 149968, 149973, 149974, 149970.