A northward surge of Gulf moisture reached southern portions of north Texas while a weak disturbance passed overhead Friday Night through Saturday Morning. This resulted in some light accumulations of sleet and freezing rain over some of the southern counties of North Texas as temperatures dropped below freezing by early Saturday.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
A northward surge of Gulf moisture reached southern portions of north Texas while a weak disturbance passed overhead Friday Night through Saturday Morning. This resulted in some light accumulations of sleet and freezing rain over some of the southern counties of North Texas as temperatures dropped below freezing by early Saturday.
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 Jan 10, 5:40 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 540 AM CST SAT JAN 10 2015 .AVIATION... MOISTURE/PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY...BUT A LAYER OF VERY DRY AIR NEAR 4000 FEET WILL HAVE TO BE OVERCOME BEFORE THIS PRECIPITATION CAN REACH THE GROUND. CANT RULE OUT A STRAY SLEET PELLET OR RAINDROP THROUGH MID AFTERNOON AT METROPLEX TAF SITES...BUT FOR NOW WILL LEAVE TAFS DRY. LOW LEVEL SATURATION WILL BEGIN TO OCCUR BY THIS EVENING...BUT SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE FREEZING BY THIS TIME. WILL BRING A MENTION OF LIGHT SHOWERS INTO THE FORECAST AT 0Z/6PM. STEADIER LIGHT RAIN SHOULD OCCUR FROM LATE EVENING INTO EARLY MORNING SUNDAY. ONCE THIS MORE WIDESPREAD RAIN ARRIVES...CIGS WILL FALL FROM VFR TO MVFR BY 4Z...TO IFR AROUND 7Z WHERE THEY WILL STAY THROUGH THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD. WHILE LIQUID RAIN WILL BE THE DOMINANT PRECIP TYPE...TEMPS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT MAY ONLY BE A DEGREE OR TWO ABOVE FREEZING WHICH MAY NECESSITATE SOME DE-ICING OPERATIONS. FOR WACO...IT IS NOT AS DRY IN THE LOW LEVELS...AND THEREFORE SOME PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING. WILL HAVE A MENTION OF -RAPL FROM 14-18Z. OTHERWISE TEMPS WILL WARM SLOWLY DURING THE DAY AND BELIEVE PRIMARY PRECIP TYPE WILL BE -RA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. STILL TEMPS MAY ONLY BE BARELY ABOVE FREEZING AND INBOUND AIRCRAFT MAY STILL BE COLD ENOUGH TO COLLECT ICE AFTER LANDING. VFR WILL PREVAIL TODAY...BUT MVFR CIGS WILL ARRIVE BY LATE AFTERNOON AND IFR CIGS BY MIDNIGHT LOCAL TIME. OTHERWISE LIGHT NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT SOUTHEAST DURING THE DAY. TR.92 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 401 AM CST SAT JAN 10 2015/ ...WINTRY MIX WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT... AN AREA OF MIXED PRECIPITATION...MOSTLY SLEET...WAS OCCURRING JUST SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO TEMPLE LINE EARLY THIS MORNING. WE EXPECT THE PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD A LITTLE FARTHER NORTH THIS MORNING AND THEN MOVE ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION TONIGHT. 88D RADARS HAVE INDICATED SOME HIGHER REFLECTIVITY LEVELS WHICH ARE INDICATIONS OF HEAVIER SLEET ACTIVITY. FORECAST SOUNDINGS OVER THE THE SOUTHWEST HAVE A SIGNIFICANT LAYER OF DRY AIR BELOW 850 MB WHICH WILL ENHANCE SLEET PRODUCTION...AND ALSO INDICATE SURFACE WET BULB ZERO READINGS OF 26 TO 30 DEGREES LASTING THROUGH MIDDAY. THUS WE WILL ISSUE A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SLEET AND SOME FREEZING RAIN FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO HAMILTON TO TEMPLE THROUGH 9AM THIS MORNING. IF HIGH RATES OF SLEET CONTINUE AFTER 9 AM...THEN THE ADVISORY MAY HAVE TO BE EXPENDED AND/OR EXPANDED. THE PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON BUT EXPECT MOST OF THE CWA WILL BE ABOVE FREEZING DURING THIS PERIOD. HOWEVER...THE SOUTHWEST COUNTIES MAY NOT EXCEED FREEZING AND HAVE MAINTAINED A WINTRY MIX DOWN THERE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. AN UPPER TROUGH TO THE WEST WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. AS IT NEARS...WARM AIR ADVECTION ALOFT WILL INCREASE AND DEVELOP ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIPITATION. EXPECT THIS PRECIPITATION TO SPREAD NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE CWA WITH A PLUME OF MODERATE PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE ALONG A LAMPASAS TO PARIS LINE. MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE HOVERING AROUND FREEZING...THUS FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED WHERE TEMPERATURES REMAIN AT OR BELOW FREEZING AND AS RAIN ELSEWHERE. THERE MAY BE SOME MINIMAL TRAVEL IMPACTS OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS MID-LATE EVENING AND ALONG THE RED RIVER LATE TONIGHT. HOWEVER...AS PRECIPITATION RATES INCREASE TONIGHT...SOME OF THE WARMER AIR ALOFT SHOULD BE TRANSPORTED TO THE SURFACE AND SLOWLY PUSH TEMPS ABOVE FREEZING...HELPING TO MELT ANY ICE BUILD UP ON ELEVATED SURFACES. ALL TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM ABOVE FREEZING AROUND MIDDAY SUNDAY AND ONLY RAIN IS EXPECTED EAST OF I-35 DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WE EXPECT LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...LOWS IN THE 30S AND HIGHS IN THE 40S...THEN SLIGHTLY WARMER HIGHS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL TRAVERSE THE REGION TUESDAY FOLLOWED BY AN UPPER TROUGH ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WE HAVE CONTINUED LOW CHANCE POPS FOR RAIN DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...BUT A MIX OF LIGHT SNOW AND LIGHT RAIN NORTHWEST OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO PARIS LINE TUESDAY NIGHT. WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY SHOULD BE DRY. 75 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 37 33 42 37 45 / 30 60 50 10 10 WACO, TX 35 32 43 36 48 / 60 70 50 10 10 PARIS, TX 37 31 37 34 44 / 10 70 70 30 10 DENTON, TX 36 32 42 36 44 / 20 50 30 10 10 MCKINNEY, TX 37 32 40 35 44 / 20 60 50 10 10 DALLAS, TX 38 33 41 37 45 / 40 70 50 10 10 TERRELL, TX 38 32 40 36 46 / 30 70 60 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 38 33 41 37 48 / 40 70 60 10 10 TEMPLE, TX 34 32 44 37 49 / 60 70 50 10 10 MINERAL WELLS, TX 37 33 49 35 43 / 20 40 20 10 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING FOR TXZ142- 143-156>158. && /
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 406 AM CST SAT JAN 10 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111015- 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- 406 AM CST SAT JAN 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE IN THE FORM OF RAIN...BUT TEMPERATURES ARE COLD ENOUGH FOR SOME LIGHT ICING TO OCCUR MAINLY ON ELEVATED SURFACES. MINOR TRAVEL CONCERNS EXIST ACROSS BELL...CORYELL... LAMPASAS...HAMILTON AND MILLS COUNTIES THIS MORNING WHERE A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 9 AM. OTHERWISE NO MAJOR TRAVEL IMPACTS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME ELSEWHERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SOME VERY LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE TUESDAY NIGHT MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A PARIS TO ARLINGTON TO COMANCHE LINE. NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OR IMPACTS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor icing was reported near the town of Troy by the Bell County Sheriff's Department.
Patchy icing was reported on roads and bridges by the Sheriff's Department with no major issues.
Minor icing on windshields was reported by Copperas Cove Police Department.
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, January 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: 555250, 555251, 555252.