An upper level trough of low pressure over southern Colorado and northern New Mexico moved eastward across the northern Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 22nd to cause light snow showers across Dallam County. Snow began falling across Dallam County around 6:30 PM CST and continued until 1:30 AM CST as snow showers moved outside of the county.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
An upper level trough of low pressure over southern Colorado and northern New Mexico moved eastward across the northern Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 22nd to cause light snow showers across Dallam County. Snow began falling across Dallam County around 6:30 PM CST and continued until 1:30 AM CST as snow showers moved outside of the county. The combination of freezing surface temperatures, lift provided by the upper level trough, and moisture advection overrunning the cold surface airmass proved sufficient to produce 3 inches of snow in the city of Texline (Dallam County). Trained storm spotters in Texline reported highways in and out of town became snow covered and icy however, no vehicle accidents were reported in relation to icy roadways. Snow showers diminished in intensity and areal coverage as they moved out of Dallam 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 Feb 22, 5:44 PM CST, 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 544 PM CST FRI FEB 22 2013 .AVIATION.../00Z TAFS/ HAVE MODERATE CONFIDENCE THAT -SN WILL IMPACT KDHT AND KGUY 04-07Z BEFORE ENDING BY 11-13Z. HAVE MODERATE CONFIDENCE THAT IFR CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP AT KDHT AND KGUY DURING THIS TIME FRAME AND MAY PERSIST SLIGHTLY LONGER AT KDHT. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT -SN COULD IMPACT KAMA 09-13Z ALONG WITH IFR CONDITIONS, BUT CONFIDENCE OF OCCURRENCE IS TOO LOW TO MENTION. JACKSON && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 313 PM CST FRI FEB 22 2013/ DISCUSSION... ONE SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL PUSH ACROSS THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT BRINGING A QUICK SHOT OF SNOW TO MAINLY THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES...FOLLOWED ON ITS HEEL BY A CLOSED UPPER LOW TRACKING ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION SUNDAY AND THEN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. BIGGEST FORECAST CHALLENGES WILL BE TIMING AND TRACK OF THESE UPPER SYSTEMS TONIGHT AND LATE IN THE WEEKEND...AND WHERE AND HOW MUCH SNOW WILL FALL. OF ALL THE MODELS LOOKED AT TODAY...PREFER THE ECMWF OVER THE NAM OR THE GFS. BOTH THE NAM AND GFS HAVE BEEN TOO FAR NORTH AND TOO FAST WITH THE PREVIOUS SYSTEMS. THE ECMWF HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY THE SLOWEST...DEEPEST AND MOST FARTHER SOUTH OF ANY OF THE MODELS WHICH HAS BEEN MOSTLY THE CASE THIS WINTER. THE ECMWF HAS VERIFIED THE BEST FURTHER OUT IN TIME...WHEREAS MAINLY THE NAM LATCH ON THE ECMWF SOLUTION WITHIN 24 TO 36 HOURS OF THE ONSET OF THE PRECIP. THE GFS HAS BEEN THE WORST PERFORMING MODEL RECENTLY. THIS BEING THE CASE AND SINCE THERE IS STILL AS SNOWPACK ACROSS MUCH OF THE NORTHERN PANHANDLES...TRENDED COOLER THAN THE MOS GUIDANCE ON TEMPS THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AND BUMPED UP POPS SLIGHTLY AND PRECIP AMOUNTS. STILL LOW CONFIDENCE AT THIS TIME AND WILL NOT ISSUE ANY WINTER WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS JUST YET...HOWEVER MAY PROBABLY BE NEEDED BY LATER SHIFTS. IT APPEARS THAT THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA HAS BETTER CHANCES FOR SNOW TONIGHT AND AGAIN SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH THE SNOW SPREADING ACROSS ALL OF THE PANHANDLES SUNDAY NIGHT. SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS OVER SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO SATURDAY WITH TROUGH EXTENDING SOUTH INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO. SURFACE LOW TRACKS SOUTHWARD INTO THE EASTERN PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO SUNDAY USHERING IN A STRONG COLD FRONT THROUGH THE PANHANDLES SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING. SURFACE LOW TO TRACK SOUTHEAST TO THE RED RIVER VALLEY SUNDAY NIGHT...AND THEN LIFTS NORTHWARD INTO OKLAHOMA BY MONDAY. WRAP AROUND WINTRY PRECIP WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA BEFORE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY. BUMPED UP POPS OVER THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES MONDAY...HOWEVER LATER SHIFTS WILL LIKELY NEED TO EXTEND POPS INTO MONDAY NIGHT. TRENDED COOLER THAN MOS GUIDANCE MONDAY BUT MAY NEED TO BE LOWERED FURTHER. AT OR BELOW SEASONABLE CONDITIONS THROUGH MOST OF NEXT WEEK WITH DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED FROM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SCHNEIDER FIRE WEATHER... NO ELEVATED OR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK. SCHNEIDER && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && JJ/JC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 325 PM CST FRI FEB 22 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-231200- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 325 PM CST FRI FEB 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AS WELL AS THE NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS...IF ANY...SHOULD REMAIN AROUND ONE HALF OF AN INCH OR LESS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND MOST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. LIGHT SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE AT THIS TIME ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...AND THE NORTHEAST AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ELESEWHERE...SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ONE INCH OR LESS AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SCHNEIDER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Three inches of snow reported in Texline with highways covered and icy. No accidents attributed to the icy road conditions.
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