An upper level weather disturbance combined with incoming cold air and moisture to produce light snow across the Texas Panhandle from late on the 25th through the afternoon of the 27th. Most locations received one to four inches of total snow accumulation.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
An upper level weather disturbance combined with incoming cold air and moisture to produce light snow across the Texas Panhandle from late on the 25th through the afternoon of the 27th. Most locations received one to four inches of total snow accumulation.
The following is a list of snowfall totals by county: 3 to 3.5 inches at Clarendon (Donley County); 3.1 inches at Dalhart (Dallam and Hartley counties); 3 inches at Panhandle (Carson County); 3 inches at Stratford (Sherman County); 3 inches at Vega (Oldham County); 3 inches at Wellington (Collingsworth County); 2 to 3 inches at Stinnett (Hutchinson County); 2 to 3 inches at Amarillo (Potter and Randall counties); 2.5 inches at Hereford (Deaf Smith County); 1.5 to 2 inches at Spearman (Hansford County); 1 to 2 inches at Miami (Roberts County); 1.5 inches at Dumas (Moore County); 1 to 1.5 inches at Perryton (Ochiltree County); 1 inch at Pampa (Gray County); 1 inch at Canadian (Hemphill County); 1 inch at Lipscomb (Lipscomb County); 1 inch at Shamrock (Wheeler 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 24, 10:40 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1040 PM CST TUE FEB 24 2015 .AVIATION... 06Z TAF CYCLE VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH AROUND 00Z THURSDAY AS MAINLY MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS PREVAIL. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS 5 KNOTS OR LESS WILL BECOME NORTHWEST TO NORTH 10 TO 20 KNOTS AFTER 15Z TO 17Z WEDNESDAY AS A PRE-FRONTAL SURFACE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE THREE TAF SITES. A STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL THEN PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE GUYMON AND DALHART TAF SITES AROUND 00Z TO 02Z THURSDAY...AND THEN THROUGH THE AMARILLO TAF SITES AROUND 03Z TO 05Z THURSDAY. THE NORTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 15 TO 25 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT AND LOW CLOUDS WILL PUSH SOUTH BEHIND THE FRONT RESULTING IN MVFR CEILINGS. SCHNEIDER && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 531 PM CST TUE FEB 24 2015/ AVIATION... 00Z TAF CYCLE AN UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PANHANDLES TONIGHT WHICH WILL RESULT IN SOME INCREASING MID OR HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS AT ALL THREE TAF SITES. THE AMARILLO TAF SITE COULD SEE SOME MVFR CEILINGS BETWEEN 06Z AND 10Z WEDNESDAY WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME LIGHT SNOW FLURRIES. CONFIDENCE OF FLURRIES TOO LOW TO MENTION IN THIS TAF FORECAST PACKAGE. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY. LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS 5 TO 10 KNOTS OR LESS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE AFTER 00Z TO 02Z WEDNESDAY. WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHWEST AND NORTH AFTER 15Z TO 17Z WEDNESDAY 10 TO 20 KNOTS AFTER A PRE-FRONTAL SURFACE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE THREE TAF SITES BY LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. SCHNEIDER PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 400 PM CST TUE FEB 24 2015/ SHORT TERM.../NOW THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/ A COMPACT BUT INTENSE MID LEVEL LOW IS CURRENTLY SEEN IN SATELLITE IMAGERY DIGGING SOUTHWARD OVER ARIZONA. A 130 KT JET IS NOSING EASTWARD OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO IN ADVANCE OF THIS FEATURE. FORCING/ASCENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE JET HAS RESULTED IN INCREASED MID LEVEL CLOUDS AND ENHANCED RADAR ECHOES OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THESE CLOUDS WILL SPREAD EASTWARD OVER THE PANHANDLES THROUGH THIS EVENING. PROFILES SUGGEST THERE IS AMBLE SUB-CLOUD DRY AIR TO NEGATE MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION. THAT SAID...FORECAST SOUNDINGS DO BRIEFLY SATURATE PROFILES BENEATH THE COLD CORE OF THE EJECTING LOW TONIGHT AND JUST AS FORCING/ASCENT WANES BETWEEN ROUGHLY 06-10Z. A FEW MODELS ADDITIONALLY GENERATE LIGHT QPF SIGNALS DURING THIS TIME FRAME. HAVE INTRODUCED A MENTION OF INTERMITTENT FLURRIES. IN ADDITION...TODAY/S SNOW MELT MAY HELP PROMOTE PATCHY FOG...BUT INCREASING CLOUDS MAY HELP MINIMIZE THAT THREAT. DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE MILD TOMORROW...BUT THE NEXT SOUTHWARD PUSH OF ARCTIC AIR WILL RIDGE ACROSS THE AREA IN WAKE OF THE PASSING LOW BY LATE WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL MARK THE ONSET OF A COLDER AND MORE MOIST WEATHER PATTERN. LINDLEY LONG TERM.../WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/ AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN IS TAKING SHAPE DURING THE EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST AS A SERIES OF UPPER WAVES BRING SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRECIPITATION. FAIRLY DEEP UPPER LOW NORTH OF THE GREAT LAKES WILL GRADUALLY TRACK EAST ALLOWING FOR SEVERAL UPPER DISTURBANCES TO DIVE SOUTHWARD INTO THE CENTRAL/SOUTHERN PLAINS. THE FIRST DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH A STRONG ARCTIC FRONT INTO THE AREA THURSDAY. THIS WILL DISLODGE VERY COLD AIR UPSTREAM LEADING TO MAX TEMPERATURES SOME 20 DEGREES COLDER THAN WEDNESDAY. MOISTURE PROFILES WILL SUPPORT A CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH THE HIGHER CHANCES NEAR THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER. ANOTHER UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL DIG INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS FRIDAY...BRINGING WITH IT ANOTHER CHANCE OF SNOW ALONG WITH ANOTHER SHOT OF ARCTIC AIR. WITH MAX TEMPERATURES ONLY CLIMBING INTO THE 20S...EXPECT PRECIP TYPE TO BE ALL SNOW. ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE AND SATURATED LOW-LEVELS CAN GENERATE ACCUMULATING SNOW POSSIBLE POSSIBLY SUPPORTING THE ISSUANCE OF WINTER WEATHER HEADLINES. THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL RESIDE UNDER SHORT WAVE UPPER RIDGING SATURDAY BEFORE THE UPPER FLOW TRANSITIONS OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST IN RESPONSE TO A DEEPENING UPPER TROUGH OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CONUS. SEVERAL WEAK UPPER-LEVEL IMPULSES EJECTING OUT OF THIS UPPER TROUGH WILL MAINTAIN A MENTION OF PRECIP OVER THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. WHILE NONE OF THESE IMPULSES SUGGEST ANY SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOWFALL...OVERRIDING WARM AIR ADVECTION PATTERN RAISES CONCERNS FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION. HAVE OMITTED ANY MENTION OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FOR NOW AS CONFIDENCE IN THIS OCCURRING IS TOO LOW. TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY WARM GOING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT ARE STILL EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW NORMAL WITH HIGHS CLIMBING INTO THE 40S EARLY NEXT WEEK. CLK && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 11/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CST TUE FEB 24 2015 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-251200- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 315 PM CST TUE FEB 24 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. CLK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
19 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3.1 inches in Dalhart.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3.1 inches in Dalhart.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3 inches at Vega.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 2 to 3 inches in Amarillo. 2.8 inches was measured at the National Weather Service office.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 2 to 3 inches in Amarillo. 2.8 inches was measured at the National Weather Service office.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 2.5 inches at Hereford.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1.5 inches at Dumas.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3 inches at Borger.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 to 2 inches in Roberts County.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 to 2 inches in Miami.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 inches in Canadian County.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 inch in Pampa.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 inch in Wheeler.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3 to 3.5 inches Donley County.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3 inches Wellington.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 3 inches Stratford.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1.5 to 2 inches in Spearman.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 to 1.5 inches in Ochiltree County.
Snow accumulated to a depth of 1 inch in Lipscomb County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 2015
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: 563629, 563631, 563635, 563640, 563641, 563643, 563648, 563652, 563662, 563668, 563680, 563681, 563682, 563684, 563686, 563688, 563690, 563692, 563693.