The combination of light surface winds, clear skies, and sub-freezing temperatures led to the development of freezing fog across the eastern Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the 8th. Visibilities dropped below 3 miles at Pampa (Gray County), Wheeler (Wheeler County), Miami (Roberts County), and Canadian (Hemphill County).
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
The combination of light surface winds, clear skies, and sub-freezing temperatures led to the development of freezing fog across the eastern Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the 8th. Visibilities dropped below 3 miles at Pampa (Gray County), Wheeler (Wheeler County), Miami (Roberts County), and Canadian (Hemphill County). Visibilities dropped below a quarter of a mile at Clarendon (Donley County), Wellington (Collingsworth County), Perryton (Ochiltree County), and Lipscomb (Lipscomb 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 7, 10:51 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1051 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014 .AVIATION... 06Z TAF CYCLE AN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE ROCKIES WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO BROKEN HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS THROUGH 06Z SUNDAY. A SURFACE TROUGH WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE PANHANDLES LATER TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING SHIFTING THE WINDS FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH 5 TO 10 KNOTS TO THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST 5 TO 15 KNOTS. LOW CLOUDS AND AREAS OF FREEZING FOG IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING AHEAD OF THE SURFACE TROUGH...MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE PANHANDLES OR SO. ONLY THE GUYMON TAF SITE COULD BE AFFECTED BY THE LOW CLOUDS AND FREEZING FOG HOWEVER CONFIDENCE TOO LOW TO MENTION IN THE TAF FORECAST. OTHERWISE...OUTSIDE OF THE LOW CLOUDS AND FREEZING FOG WHICH SHOULD LIFT BY MID MORNING SATURDAY...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. SCHNEIDER && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 915 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014/ UPDATE... TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT SPREADS OF 3 DEGREES OR LESS COMMON ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLES THIS EVENING...MAINLY ALONG AND OFF THE CAPROCK. THE LATEST RUN OF THE HRRR...WHICH DOES A VERY GOOD JOB WITH LOW CLOUDS AND FOG...FORECASTING LOW VISIBILITIES TO DEVELOP AFTER 06Z SATURDAY OVER MUCH OF THE NORTHEAST OR EAST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA...ROUGHLY ALONG AND EAST FROM TEXAS COUNTY OKLAHOMA SOUTH INTO DONLEY AND COLLINGSWORTH COUNTIES IN TEXAS. DECIDED TO GO A LITTLE FARTHER WEST INTO ARMSTRONG COUNTY IN CASE THE FREEZING FOG DOES DEVELOP FURTHER WEST. SURFACE TROUGH EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO THE WESTERN PANHANDLES LATER TONIGHT SHIFTING THE WINDS AROUND TO MORE DOWNSLOPING WEST OR SOUTHWEST. FEEL THAT THESE DOWNSLOPING WINDS SHOULD OCCUR AS FAR EAST AS THE AMARILLO AND CANYON AREAS WHICH SHOULD INHIBIT THE DEVELOPMENT FOR LOW CLOUDS AND FREEZING FOG ALONG AND WEST OF A CIMARRON COUNTY OKLAHOMA TO POTTER AND RANDALL COUNTIES TEXAS. IF ANY FREEZING FOG SHOULD DEVELOP IN THE AMARILLO AND CANYON AREAS...FEEL IT SHOULD BE BRIEF. THE LOW CLOUDS AND FREEZING FOG EXPECTED TO LIFT BY MID MORNING SATURDAY. UPDATED AND SENT ALL THE PUBLIC PRODUCTS INCLUDING THE HWO AND ZFP. SCHNEIDER PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 543 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014/ AVIATION... 00Z TAF CYCLE AN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE ROCKIES LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED TO BROKEN HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY AT ALL THREE TAF SITES. A SURFACE TROUGH OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE WESTERN PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 15 KNOTS WILL VEER AROUND TO THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST ONCE THE SURFACE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH AFTER 04Z TO 08Z SATURDAY. SCHNEIDER PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 304 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014/ DISCUSSION... FINALLY...A GOOD PORTION OF THE PANHANDLES GOT ABOVE FREEZING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK WEEK AS THE WESTERN COUNTIES IN THE PANHANDLES SAW LARGE AMOUNTS OF SUNSHINE AND SNOW MELT. WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT TONIGHT FOR POTENTIAL PATCHY FREEZING FOG AS SNOW MELT AND LIGHT WINDS COULD LEAD TO FAVORABLE CONDITIONS WHERE DECENT SNOW MELT OCCURRED TODAY. TOMORROW ALL LOCATIONS WILL GET ABOVE FREEZING AND INTO THE FORTIES WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND LIGHT NEARLY ZONAL FLOW IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. MODELS ARE COMING INTO A BIT BETTER AGREEMENT ON THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONT OVER THE WEEKEND. LOOKS LIKE IT WILL ENTER THE PANHANDLES LATE ON SATURDAY AND WORK ITS WAY THROUGH DURING THE DAY ON SUNDAY. AGAIN WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS AS THE PREVIOUS FRONT PLAYED HAVOC WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES AND THIS ONE COULD AS WELL. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED AS FRONT GETS CLOSER AND HIGHER RESOLUTION WRFS ARE ABLE TO SAMPLE IT. REGARDLESS OF THE TIMING OF THE FRONT WINDS LOOK TO BE A BIT BREEZY BEHIND THE FRONT. OUR NEXT BEST SHOT AT PICKING UP WINTER WEATHER WILL COME EARLY NEXT WEEK. WITH THIS NEXT SYSTEM GFS HAS BACKED OF ON PRECIP IN THE PANHANDLES AND SHOVED IT FURTHER SOUTH TOWARDS LUBBOCK. WHILE THE ECMWF STILL SHOWS QPF OVER THE PANHANDLES ON TUESDAY. HAVE HIGHEST POPS IN THE SOUTH AND WEST AS TROUGH LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT TRACK A BIT FURTHER SOUTH THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECASTED. ALL THAT BEING SAID CURRENTLY LOOKS LIKE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN 3 INCHES ARE LIKELY IF WE RECEIVE ANYTHING. WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... IN THE WAKE OF TUESDAY'S SHORTWAVE TROUGH PASSAGE...MEDIUM RANGE SOLUTIONS DEPICT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DRY NORTHWEST TO NEAR ZONAL FLOW ALOFT. THIS PATTERN IS GENERALLY PROGGED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD AND WILL RESULT IN BENIGN WEATHER. MODELS DEEPEN A LEE SIDE TROUGH WEDNESDAY BENEATH THE BACKING FLOW OVER THE ROCKIES. THE GFS APPEARS A BIT TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH DOWNSLOPE WINDS ALONG THIS TROUGH ON THE LLANO ESTACADO...AND THUS LIKELY TOO WARM FOR DAYTIME HIGHS...ESPECIALLY IF ANY MOISTURE IS REALIZED WITH THE EARLY WEEK SYSTEM. WILL TREND CLOSER TO THE COOLER AND SEASONABLE EUROPEAN GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES FOR MID WEEK. SOLUTIONS CONTINUE TO DIFFER WITH THE TIMING OF A COLD FRONT LATE IN THE WORK WEEK. THIS LENDS TOWARD REDUCED CONFIDENCE FOR TEMPERATURES AND TIMING OF STRONGER NORTHERLY WINDS DURING THE THURSDAY TO FRIDAY TIMEFRAME. FIRE WEATHER... NO ELEVATED OR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPCTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND GIVEN THE LATEST SNOWFALL AND FORECASTED RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO REMAIN ABOVE 20 PERCENT WITH LIGHT WINDS. && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1056 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-081200- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 1056 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AREAS OF FREEZING FOG IS EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE FROM A GUYMON TO CLAUDE LINE EASTWARD TO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA STATE LINE. VISIBILITIES COULD FALL TO AROUND ONE TO THREE MILES AT TIMES WITH A FEW LOCATIONS HAVING VISIBILITIES DROP TO BELOW ONE MILE. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING THE FREEZING FOG AS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES CAN BECOME SLICK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AREAS OF FREEZING FOG WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MID MORNING SATURDAY ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES ALONG AND EAST OF A GUYMON TO CLAUDE LINE. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING THE FREEZING FOG. VISIBILITIES OF ONE TO THREE MILES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME LOCATIONS FALLING TO LESS THAN ONE MILE. THE FREEZING FOG WILL CAUSE BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES TO BECOME SLICK. LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS...IF ANY...ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT 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.
8 freezing fog. Local standard time, as filed.
One quarter mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
One quarter mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
One quarter mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
One quarter mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
Less than three mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
Less than three mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
Less than three mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
Less than three mile visibility with temperatures below freezing.
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