Heavy Snow, Atoka
- When
- February 7, 1:00 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Atoka forecast zone
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 34.374, -96.038 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Up to 4 inches of snow fell in the Tushka area.
Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, February 7, 2014
With a persistent very cold and dry airmass over Oklahoma, a weak upper storm system moving across central Texas brought adequate moisture and lift to produce a heavy mesoscale band of snow. This band brought impressive snowfall to portions of southern Oklahoma.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
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 OUN wrote it up.
With a persistent very cold and dry airmass over Oklahoma, a weak upper storm system moving across central Texas brought adequate moisture and lift to produce a heavy mesoscale band of snow. This band brought impressive snowfall to portions of southern Oklahoma.
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 7, 11:41 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 7, 11:41 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1141 AM CST FRI FEB 7 2014
.DISCUSSION...
THE 18Z AVIATION DISCUSSION FOLLOWS....
&&
.AVIATION...
A BAND OF -SN WILL AFFECT KSPS AND OTHER PARTS OF N TX AND S OK
THIS AFTERNOON...WITH VSBYS DOWN TO AROUND 1 SM AT TIMES. A FEW
PATCHES OF -SN WILL ALSO AFFECT N OK EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME
PARTS OF OK/N TX WILL SEE DECREASING CLOUD COVER OVERNIGHT...BUT
WARMER AND MORE HUMID AIR WILL BE DRAWN N...OVER A COLD GROUND.
THIS MAY RESULT IN ADVECTION FOG ACROSS MUCH OF THE ERN 2/3 OF
OK...POSSIBLY EVEN WRN OK/WRN N TX. HAVE PLACED BR IN THE TAFS FOR
THE SITES MOST LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED IF THIS FOG DOES FORM. IF IT
DOES FORM...SOME DENSE FOG...WITH VSBYS LESS THAN 1/4 SM CANNOT BE
RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY AT KOKC/KOUN/KPNC. WHATEVER
HAPPENS...CONDITIONS SHOULD BEGIN TO IMPROVE BY NOON ON SATURDAY.
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1100 AM CST FRI FEB 7 2014/
UPDATE...
PLEASE SEE THE DISCUSSION BELOW.
DISCUSSION...
AN AREA OF SNOW CONTINUES TO SLOWLY MOVE ENEWRD SOUTH OF THE RED
RIVER THIS MORNING AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH TRAVERSES WEST TEXAS.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LIFT/DPVA WILL REMAIN OVER OUR EXTREME S/SE
COUNTIES THROUGH THIS EVENING SO WINTER WX ADV IS IN GOOD SHAPE.
DID INCREASE POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON THOUGH MAINLY ALONG AND JUST
NORTH OF THE RED RIVER AS TRENDS AND MODELS AGREE ON
PERSISTENT/SUFFICIENT MID LEVEL MOISTURE AND MODEST LIFT THROUGH
THE DENDRITIC ZONE THERE. ALSO LOWERED TEMPS A DEGREE OR TWO FOR A
FEW LOCATIONS AS CLEARING SKIES ARE ONLY ANTICIPATED OVER PORTIONS
OF THE WESTERN FA. ALL UPDATED PRODUCTS ARE IN THE PROCESS OF
BEING SENT.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
OKLAHOMA CITY OK 26 19 38 21 / 20 10 10 0
HOBART OK 24 16 39 21 / 20 10 0 10
WICHITA FALLS TX 28 21 49 26 / 70 10 0 0
GAGE OK 20 12 36 16 / 20 10 0 10
PONCA CITY OK 20 14 35 17 / 20 20 10 0
DURANT OK 31 25 47 29 / 90 10 10 0
&&
.OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR OKZ041-
043-045>048-050>052.
TX...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR TXZ090.
&&
03/23/23Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 7, 12:04 PM CST, 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTEDD
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1204 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-081815-
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-NOBLE-
ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-BECKHAM-
WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-CLEVELAND-
POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON-TILLMAN-
COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON-JEFFERSON-
CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN-FOARD-WILBARGER-
WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY-
1204 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION...
A DRY...COLD...AND STABLE AIRMASS WILL RESIDE OVER THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS PREVENTING THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEVELOPING. HOWEVER...A WEAK
UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL GENERATE WIDESPREAD LIGHT SNOW
SHOWERS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CST SATURDAY FEB 8.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...ZERO PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME BRIEF MODERATE SNOW
MAY LEAD TO SNOW ACCUMULATIONS NEAR OR JUST ABOVE AN INCH FROM
NEAR HENRIETTA TEXAS...TO ARDMORE TO PONTOTOC IN SOUTHERN
OKLAHOMA...AND AREAS SOUTH TO THE RED RIVER. SLICK ROADWAYS WILL
BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE AREAS THROUGH AT LEAST LATE TONIGHT.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE REGION MONDAY INTO
TUESDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF WINTER WEATHER TO OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AROUND
500 AM SATURDAY MORNING.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in Texas, February 7, 2014
- Winter Weather in Arkansas, February 7 to 8, 2014
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, February 7, 2014
- Strong Wind in California, February 7, 2014
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, February 7 to 9, 2014
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 7 to 9, 2014
- Winter Weather in Arkansas, February 7 to 8, 2014
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, February 7 to 9, 2014
- Winter Weather in Tennessee, February 7 to 8, 2014
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 7 to 9, 2014
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, February 7 to 9, 2014
- Winter Weather in Arkansas, February 7 to 8, 2014
More
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, February 2014
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: 504347.