Light snow accumulated across portions of the Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the 14th. Some sleet and freezing drizzle occurred as well.
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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 AMA wrote it up.
Light snow accumulated across portions of the Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the 14th. Some sleet and freezing drizzle occurred as well. Most locations received under one inch of snow accumulation.
The following is a list of counties that received an inch or more of snowfall: 1.6 inches at Borger (Hutchinson County); 1 inch at 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 Jan 13, 9:57 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 957 PM CST TUE JAN 13 2015 .UPDATE... HAVE UPDATED THE FORECAST TO INCLUDE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WITH THE SNOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. LATEST SOUNDING AND LOCAL CALLS POINT TO THIS MIXTURE. SNOW WILL BE THE MAIN TYPE ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA. LATEST SHORT RANGE MODELS INDICATE THAT THIS BAND ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL BE THE LAST OF THE PRECIPITATION FOR THE NIGHT. THIS BAND IS EXPECTED TO HOLD TOGETHER AS IT MOVES EAST...BUT THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE FAIRLY BRIEF IN ANY ONE LOCATION. THEREFORE...AT THIS POINT BELIEVE THAT ANY PRECIPITATION WILL BE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 516 PM CST TUE JAN 13 2015/ AVIATION... MVFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH THIS FORECAST. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHERLY BEHIND A COLD FRONT OVERNIGHT...BUT SPEEDS WILL REMAIN AT 10 KNOTS OR LESS. SOME FOG WILL FOUND ACROSS THE REGION AS WELL AND VISIBILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE MVFR RANGE AT THIS TIME LATE TONIGHT INTO THE MORNING HOURS OF WEDNESDAY. ANY LIGHT SNOW THAT DEVELOPS OVERNIGHT SHOULD NOT REDUCE THE VISIBILITY BELOW MVFR. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 350 PM CST TUE JAN 13 2015/ DISCUSSION... WHAT LOOKED LIKE A SEMI-DECENT UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM A FEW DAYS AGO THAT WAS PROGGED TO AFFECT THE SRN HIGH PLAINS NOW LOOKS LIKE A FIRST CLASS DUD FOR TONIGHT. MODELS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL SHEAR OUT AND FURTHER WEAKEN TONIGHT...WITH MOST OF THE IMPACTS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO. MODELS MAINTAIN A GENERALLY DRY SCENARIO FOR OUR FCST AREA. THEREFORE...HAVE FOLLOWED SUIT AND LOWERED POPS TO SLGT CHC VALUES ALL SECTIONS FOR TONIGHT. ALSO LOWERED SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS TO LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN INCH...IF ANY SNOW MANAGES TO DEVELOP. PULLED THE SLGT CHC POPS FOR SERN TX PNHDL ON WEDNESDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF TARCKS FURTHER AWAY FROM THE REGION. A RATHER BENIGN WEATHER PATTERN IS FORESEEN FOR THE TX AND OK PNHDLS FROM THURSDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH DRY WEATHER AND MODERATING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED. DRY COLD FRONTAL PASSAGES ARE FORECAST AROUND SATURDAY AND THEN AGAIN NEXT TUESDAY. ANDRADE && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 15/16
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 948 PM CST TUE JAN 13 2015 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-141600- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 948 PM CST TUE JAN 13 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ANY ACCUMULATION OF ICE...SNOW OR SLEET WILL BE LIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GOEHRING/BEAT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Sleet and light snow resulted in very minor accumulations but was enough to cause several accidents on Interstate 40 from the New Mexico state line to Vega. The Interstate was shut down for a period due to the slick conditions and numerous accidents.
An NWS Cooperative Observer measured 1.6 inches of snow accumulation 2 miles west-southwest of Borger.
Law enforcement reported an estimate of 1 inch of snow accumulation in Lipscomb.
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: 557800, 557796, 557798.