Heavy snow with totals of 4-7 inches fell along and north of a line from Breckenridge to Weatherford to Denton to Sherman. One person died in an accident on Interstate 20 in Parker County and a 15 vehicle-accident was also caused by slick roads in Collin County.
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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.
The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Heavy snow with totals of 4-7 inches fell along and north of a line from Breckenridge to Weatherford to Denton to Sherman. One person died in an accident on Interstate 20 in Parker County and a 15 vehicle-accident was also caused by slick roads in Collin 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 27, 3:46 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 346 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 .DISCUSSION... ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS... LONGWAVE UPPER LEVEL TROUGHING IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE OVER NORTH AMERICA WITH AN ARCTIC AIRMASS NESTLED ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE CONUS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY DEPICTS A SHORTWAVE OVER NEW MEXICO MOVING EAST TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...WITHIN WHAT CONTINUES TO BE AN ACTIVE STORM TRACK OVERHEAD. IMPRESSIVE COLD AIR ADVECTION PERSISTS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING BELOW FREEZING OVER JUST ABOUT ALL OF THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING. WITH THE COLD AIR WELL IN PLACE...OUR MAIN MAIN CONCERNS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL BE THE AMOUNTS AND TYPES OF PRECIPITATION WHICH WILL OCCUR. A ZONE OF ENHANCED LIFT CURRENTLY INCREASING IN ADVANCE OF THE SHORTWAVE IS ALREADY RESULTING IN LIGHT SNOW JUST WEST OF THE REGION. SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY HAS REACHED AS FAR EAST AS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES...DROPPING FLURRIES ALONG THE HWY 190 CORRIDOR FROM LAMPASAS TO TEMPLE TO NORTH OF HEARNE. THE LATEST RADAR TRENDS INDICATE THAT THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WILL WEAKEN THE FARTHER EAST IT GETS. WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON THIS ACTIVITY...BUT AT THIS TIME WE DO NOT EXPECT ACCUMULATIONS IN THESE AREAS. BACK TO THE APPROACHING SHORTWAVE...NEAR-TERM GUIDANCE SHOWS THAT THE REGION OF ENHANCED UPWARD VERTICAL VELOCITIES WILL INTENSIFY AROUND 12Z WHILE SPREADING EAST-NORTHEAST INTO OUR NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES. THIS IS ROUGHLY THE TIME WE EXPECT ACCUMULATING SNOW TO BEGIN WEST OF I-35 AND ALONG/NORTH OF I-20. STRONG LIFT WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST ALONG AND NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR...REACHING THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX BY 15Z AND ALL THE WAY EAST TO THE PARIS AREA BEFORE 18Z. THIS WOULD LIKELY BRING THE ONSET OF SNOW AROUND 9 AM IN THE METROPLEX AND PRIOR TO NOON ACROSS ALL OF THE ADVISORY AREA. COUNTIES SOUTH OF THE ADVISORY ARE PLENTY COLD ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE SOME SNOW...BUT AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS PRECIP WILL BE LIGHT ENOUGH TO ONLY RESULT IN MINOR ACCUMULATIONS IF ANY. THE SHORTWAVE WILL CONTINUE OFF TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST...BRINGING A A BRIEF LULL IN PRECIPITATION LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. A SHIFT IN THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN WILL BEGIN THIS EVENING AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS ALONG THE WEST COAST. THIS WILL CREATE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT...SETTING US UP FOR AN OVERRUNNING SITUATION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. NORMALLY THIS WOULD NOT BE TOO BIG OF A DEAL...BUT WITH TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING...THE LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE WILL FREEZE UPON SURFACE CONTACT. THIS THIN COATING OF ICE ON TOP OF A POTENTIAL LAYER OF SNOW COULD CREATE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS...HENCE THE CONTINUATION OF THE ADVISORY INTO SATURDAY. A WARM ADVECTION REGIME SHOULD STRENGTHEN ENOUGH TO ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB ABOVE FREEZING SATURDAY NIGHT...SO THE ADVISORY WILL END AT SUNSET TOMORROW. WE WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON TEMPERATURES SATURDAY...AND POSSIBLY EXTEND THE ADVISORY IF CERTAIN AREAS OF SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES LINGER. ALSO...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR EXTENDING THE ADVISORY SOUTH DEPENDING ON HOW TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION SHAPE UP OVERNIGHT AND TOMORROW. ISENTROPIC ASCENT AND A WET PATTERN WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS THE WEST COAST SYSTEM FURTHER INTENSIFIES. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES LATE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. A LEADING SHORTWAVE WILL RACE EAST AHEAD OF THE MAIN /NOW OPEN/ TROUGH...MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON TUESDAY. MARGINAL CAPE WILL BE PRESENT AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 60S AND 70S. THIS COMBINED WITH LIFT FROM THE SHORTWAVE SHOULD GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY. THE MAIN UPPER TROUGH WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT WEDNESDAY. COOLER...DRIER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE SECOND HALF OF NEXT WEEK BEHIND THIS FRONT. 30 && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1121 PM CST THU FEB 26 2015/ ONLY CHANGES TO THIS TAF SET ARE TO BRING VISBY DOWN TO 3SM IN THE SNOW FRIDAY...AND ADD IFR CEILINGS/VISBY EARLY MORNING SATURDAY IN THE -FZDZ. EVENING GUIDANCE HAS QPF AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS PRETTY SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS RUNS AND WE STILL EXPECT 1" TO 2" IN THE METROPLEX. 9 AM START TIME FOR SNOW IS STILL INDICATED. I HAVE LESS CONFIDENCE ON TIMING OF CHANGEOVER TO -FZDZ BUT TIMED IT BASED ON FORECAST SOUNDINGS THAT SHOWED THE DENDRITIC GROWTH REGION DRYING OUT BY MID EVENING. MY GUESS IS THAT AS LONG AS THERE ARE DENDRITES GROWING...THEY ARE VERY GOOD AT ACCRETING OUT ANY LOW LEVEL SUPERCOOLED WATER (BR/DZ DROPS) AND THE FZDZ SHOULD NOT OCCUR UNTIL THE DENDRITES STOP FORMING. THERE MAY BE SOME SLEET OR GRAINY SNOW MIXED IN DURING THE CHANGEOVER AS WELL. LATEST GUIDANCE STILL SHOWS SURFACE TEMPS CLIMBING PAST FREEZING BY NOON SATURDAY...WHEN CHANGEOVER TO -DZ/-RA WILL OCCUR. 84 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 32 26 36 36 52 / 60 60 60 40 40 WACO, TX 35 29 41 39 59 / 20 40 60 40 40 PARIS, TX 30 24 36 35 50 / 50 60 60 40 40 DENTON, TX 30 25 34 34 50 / 70 60 60 40 40 MCKINNEY, TX 31 25 35 35 52 / 60 60 60 40 40 DALLAS, TX 32 27 37 37 53 / 60 50 60 40 40 TERRELL, TX 33 27 39 38 55 / 40 40 60 40 40 CORSICANA, TX 35 28 41 41 59 / 20 40 60 40 40 TEMPLE, TX 36 30 41 40 60 / 20 50 60 40 40 MINERAL WELLS, TX 29 25 35 34 55 / 70 60 60 40 30 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST SATURDAY FOR TXZ091>095-100>106-115>120-129>133-141. && 58/30
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 346 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281000- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL- NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS- LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 346 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE IS IN EFFECT NORTHWEST OF COMMERCE TO COMANCHE LINE THROUGH TONIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A CISCO TO GAINESVILLE LINE...AND UP TO 2 INCHES ELSEWHERE. TRAVEL IMPACTS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES EARLY ON THEN SPREAD INTO THE OTHER PARTS OF THE ADVISORY AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. TONIGHT...ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH ARE EXPECTED AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE ADDITIONAL TRAVEL IMPACTS...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. OUTSIDE OF THE ADVISORY AREA...SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATION WILL BE LIGHTER...BUT SOME BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES MIGHT BECOME SLICK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT NORTHWEST OF COMMERCE TO COMANCHE LINE SATURDAY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH ARE EXPECTED AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE ADDITIONAL TRAVEL IMPACTS THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
11 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Four to six inches of snow fell across most of the county.
Four inches of snow fell across most of the county.
Four to five inches of snow fell across most of the county. A driver was killed in a head-on collision on Interstate 20 near Brock. Several other accidents were reported in the county.
Four to five inches of snow fell across the southern half of the county while two to four inches of snow fell elsewhere.
An average of 4-6 inches of snow fell across the county.
Four to seven inches of snow fell across the county. Multiple accidents were reported on Highway 287 and Farm Road 51, including a few roll-overs.
An average of 3-6 inches of snow fell across the county. The highest totals were in the northern portions of the county.
Four to five inches of snow fell across the southeastern half of the county while up to three inches of snow fell elsewhere.
An average of four to five inches of snow fell across the county.
An average of three to five inches of snow fell across the county. The higher snowfall totals were in the northwestern half of the county. A fifteen vehicle accident caused by slick roads and possibly low visibility happened on US Highway 75 southbound in Melissa near Throckmorton Road. Two people were transported to the hospital. The highway was shut down for almost 8 hours.
An average of four to five inches of snow fell across the county.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Snow, Parker | 2015-02-27 | 20 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
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: 560101, 560097, 560102, 559993, 560010, 560092, 560096, 559557, 559558, 564343, 559981.