Cold/Wind Chill, Dallam
- When
- October 28, 3:00 AM CST to 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Dallam forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -102.602 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Overnight low of 36 degrees at Dalhart.
Cold in Texas, October 28, 2014
The combination of light winds and clear skies led to overnight lows across Dallam and Hartley Counties to drop between 33 and 36 degrees to create frost. The overnight low at Dalhart was 36 degrees.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 AMA wrote it up.
The combination of light winds and clear skies led to overnight lows across Dallam and Hartley Counties to drop between 33 and 36 degrees to create frost. The overnight low at Dalhart was 36 degrees. These conditions threatened crops during the late growing season. By 5 AM CST, conditions warmed above 36 degrees to bring an end to frost conditions.
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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 27, 10:54 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 10:54 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1154 PM CDT MON OCT 27 2014
.AVIATION...
FOR THE 06Z TAFS...LITTLE CHANGE TO PREVIOUS AVIATION AFD REASONING.
NORTH AND NORTHEAST WINDS BEHIND THE LATEST COLD FRONT WILL GRADUALLY
BECOME SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. PERIODS
OF HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED. OVERALL...VER CONDITIONS WILL
CONTINUE AT ALL TERMINAL SITES THROUGH LATE TUESDAY EVENING.
ANDRADE
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 820 PM CDT MON OCT 27 2014/
UPDATE...
BASED ON FORECAST TEMPERATURES AND WIND SPEEDS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY
TUESDAY PLUS LESS IN THE WAY OF CLOUD COVER THAN EARLIER EXPECTED...A
FROST ADVISORY FOR THE FAR NORTHWEST ZONES WILL BE ISSUED BEGINNING
AT 4 AM CDT TUE AND ENDING AT 9 AM CDT TUE.
ANDRADE
PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 611 PM CDT MON OCT 27 2014/
AVIATION...
FOR THE 00Z TAFS...NORTH AND NORTHEAST WINDS WILL GRADUALLY BECOME SOUTHEAST
TO SOUTH TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. PERIODS OF HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS
ARE ALSO EXPECTED. OVERALL...VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE AT ALL TERMINAL
SITES THROUGH LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
ANDRADE
PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 323 PM CDT MON OCT 27 2014/
DISCUSSION...
FORECAST REMAINS LARGELY UNCHANGED. NO PRECIPITATION IS IN THE
FORECAST FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS.
COLD FRONT HAS PASSED THROUGH ALL OF THE FORECAST AREA. COLD AIR
ADVECTION AND ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER HAS BROUGHT TEMPERATURES WELL
BELOW THOSE OF RECENT DAYS. EXPECT BRIEF CLEARING ACROSS
NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS THIS EVENING...WITH MID- AND HIGH-LEVEL
CLOUDS RETURNING TONIGHT. THUS...WE ARE FORECASTING TEMPERATURES TO
REMAIN ABOVE FREEZING AREA-WIDE.
MODELS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH GENERAL PATTERN FOR THE UPCOMING
DAYS. SEMI-ZONAL FLOW TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOLLOWS DEPARTURE OF
BROAD MID-LEVEL TROF. BUILDING RIDGE OVER SOUTHWESTERN U.S. CAUSES
NORTHWEST FLOW TO DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN WEDNESDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY. RIDGE TRAVERSES FORECAST AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT THEN DEVELOPS AND STRENGTHENS
SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY WITH DEEPENING OF NEXT WESTERN TROF.
PASSAGE OF NEXT COLD FRONT ON THURSDAY EXPECTED TO BE DRY.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY LOOK TO BE WARM AND BREEZY TO WINDY AS SURFACE
TROF DEEPENS. SOME SUGGESTION THAT DRYLINE MAY DEVELOP ON
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WITH NEXT POLAR FRONT ARRIVING MONDAY.
COCKRELL
&&
.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FROST ADVISORY FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: DALLAM...HARTLEY.
OK...FROST ADVISORY FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: CIMARRON.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 27, 7:55 PM CST, 7 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 855 PM CDT MON OCT 27 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-281100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 855 PM CDT MON OCT 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT. IN ADDITION TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS...TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO FALL INTO THE MIDDLE 30S ACROSS THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND FAR NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE AFTER 4 AM TUESDAY. AS A RESULT...A FROST ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA BEGINNING AT 4 AM TUESDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE FROST ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND FAR NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. ANDRADE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Cold/Wind Chill, Hartley
- When
- October 28, 3:00 AM CST to 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Hartley forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 35.840, -102.603 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Overnight low of 36 degrees at Dalhart.
What these are
- Cold/Wind Chill
- Cold or wind chill below warning criteria that caused deaths, injuries or damage.
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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: 541800, 541801.