Light snow fell across portions of the Texas Panhandle with accumulations at or above one inch confined to the far northwest corner of the Panhandle. One inch of snow accumulated in Dalhart (Dallam and Hartley counties) and three quarters of an inch had accumulated in Stratford (Sherman County).
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Light snow fell across portions of the Texas Panhandle with accumulations at or above one inch confined to the far northwest corner of the Panhandle. One inch of snow accumulated in Dalhart (Dallam and Hartley counties) and three quarters of an inch had accumulated in Stratford (Sherman 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 Dec 26, 6:09 AM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
609 AM CST FRI DEC 26 2014
.AVIATION...
FOR THE 12Z TAFS...AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL TRAVERSE THE SRN
HIGH PLAINS TODAY AND THIS EVENING...WITH GREATEST THREAT OF LIGHT
SNOW EXPECTED TO BE AT KGUY AND KDHT. MVFR TO IFR CIGS ANTICIPATED
THROUGH 12Z SATURDAY AT ALL TERMINAL SITES.
ANDRADE
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 352 AM CST FRI DEC 26 2014/
DISCUSSION...
COLD FRONT MAKING ITS WAY SOUTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE TEXAS
PANHANDLE EARLY THIS MORNING. FRONTAL PASSAGE EXPECTED BY 12Z TODAY
ACROSS ALL OF THE FORECAST AREA. CLOSED UPPER LOW TRACKING EAST
ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION APPROACHING THE PANHANDLES BY 18Z
TODAY. SNOW SHOULD BEGIN TO SPREAD NORTH AND EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA THIS MORNING...TAPERING OFF BY 00Z SATURDAY AS THE UPPER LOW
LIFT NORTHEAST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS STATES AND BEST UPPER LEVEL
SUPPORT SHIFTS NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. ANY SNOWFALL
ACCUMULATIONS TODAY WILL ONLY BE AROUND AN INCH AND MAINLY ACROSS THE
WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLES. A WINTER WEATHER
ADVISORY FOR SNOW HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 00Z
SATURDAY...BUT MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED UNTIL 06Z SATURDAY IF THE
UPPER SYSTEM SLOWS DOWN AND THE SNOW LINGERS PAST 00Z SATURDAY.
COLDER BUT DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED SATURDAY AS THE MAIN UPPER TROUGH
TRACKS EAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLES AND SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS DOWN INTO
THE FORECAST AREA.
SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS OFF TO THE EAST SUNDAY AND DOWNSLOPING
SOUTHWESTERLY SURFACE FLOW AHEAD OF THE NEXT APPROACHING UPPER SYSTEM
AND COLD FRONT EARLY NEXT WEEK. NEAR SEASONABLE CONDITIONS AND DRY
SUNDAY AND THEN TURNING SHARPLY COLDER MONDAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES
THROUGH THE PANHANDLES LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. ANOTHER IN A
SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS TO TRACK SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN
REGION AND CENTRAL ROCKIES EARLY NEXT WEEK BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE
FOR LIGHT SNOW BY MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. CLOSED UPPER LOW DIGGING
OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA POISED TO LIFT
NORTHEAST BY THE LATTER HALF OF NEXT WEEK. THIS SOUTHERN STREAM UPPER
LOW EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE PANHANDLES BY NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR WINTRY PRECIPITATION NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT
AND FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH AND EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA.
SCHNEIDER
&&
.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: DALLAM...HARTLEY.
OK...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: CIMARRON.
&&HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 324 AM CST FRI DEC 26 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-262100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 324 AM CST FRI DEC 26 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LIGHT SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND INCH OVER THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLES. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW IS IN EFFECT TODAY UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. SOME PLACES IN FAR NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF THE COMBINED PANHANDLES COULD SEE UP TO AN INCH OF ACCUMULATION. LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. VERY COLD AIR IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...ANY SNOWFALL REPORTS WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. SCHNEIDER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
The Sheriff's Office reported that one inch of snow accumulated in Dalhart by 1:49 PM CST.
The Sheriff's Office reported that one inch of snow accumulated in Dalhart by 1:49 PM CST.
The Sheriff's Office reported that by 1:53 PM CST three quarters of an inch of snow had accumulated in Stratford.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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