Winter Weather, Columbia
- When
- January 22, 12:00 AM CST to 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Columbia forecast zone
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 33.214, -93.227 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather in Arkansas, January 22, 2016
In wake of the strong to severe thunderstorms that developed during the early morning through the afternoon on January 21st, colder air began to spill south into portions of Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and Northern Louisiana during the evening and overnight hours through January 22nd. As the air column began to cool near the upper level disturbance as it approached the region from the…
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 SHV wrote it up.
In wake of the strong to severe thunderstorms that developed during the early morning through the afternoon on January 21st, colder air began to spill south into portions of Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and Northern Louisiana during the evening and overnight hours through January 22nd. As the air column began to cool near the upper level disturbance as it approached the region from the west, areas of light rain began to change over to snow across portions of extreme Eastern Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana. Some light snow accumulations occurred across portions of Columbia and Union Counties in Southwest Arkansas and extreme Northern Louisiana generally north of the Interstate 20 corridor. Snowfall amounts of 1-1.5 inches fell between Magnolia and El Dorado, with isolated amounts near 2.5 inches recorded in Emerson in Southeast Columbia County from a narrow band of moderate snow that developed along Highway 79 between Emerson and Haynesville, Louisiana. This resulted in some light snow accumulations on the roads and grassy surfaces, with the snow melting shortly after daybreak on the 22nd as temperatures rose above freezing.
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 21, 11:42 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 11:42 PM CST, 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 12:29 PM CST, 11 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1229 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 LAZ017>022-TXZ152-153-165>167-221830- SABINE-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-NACOGDOCHES- SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE- 1229 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN APPROACHING UPPER LOW WILL GET STRONGER BY TONIGHT. THE THREAT FOR RAPIDLY REDEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS SOUTH OF A WARM FRONT THAT HAS SHIFTED THE SURFACE WINDS TO SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING. A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AREAS SOUTH OF THE HWY 84 CORRIDOR. ALSO...DAMAGING LARGE HAIL TO QUARTER AND GOLF BALL SIZE MAY ALSO OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT ANYTIME UNTIL THE UPPER STORM PASSES BY OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THE SURFACE WINDS WILL SHIFT BACK TO NORTHWEST AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES OVERHEAD...BRINGING BACK THE COLD AIR. ANY AND ALL RAIN WILL COME TO AN END BY LUNCHTIME. AFTER A CHILLY WEEKEND...WARMER AIR RETURNS WITH MORE SHOWERS EARLY IN THE NEW WORK WEEK...AHEAD OF YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY POSSIBLY BE NEEDED TODAY. ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097- 108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151-221830- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-DE SOTO- RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE-FRANKLIN- TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON- CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA- 1229 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN APPROACHING UPPER LOW WILL GET STRONGER AND COLDER BY TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THE REST OF THE DAY. SOME LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR ANY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. OVERNIGHT AS THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE CHILLS AND THE CORE OF THE LOW MOVES OVERHEAD...WE WILL LIKELY SEE RAIN TRANSITION OVER TO SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE GROUND TEMPERATURES WILL HOLD ON TO NEEDED WARMTH TO MELT ANY ACCUMULATIONS BY DAYBREAK. AIR TEMPERATURES NORTH OF HIGHWAY 82 MAY ALLOW SOME ICE TO LINGER ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... SUNSHINE WILL RETURN IN THE WAKE OF THE UPPER STORM DURING FRIDAY. AFTER A CHILLY WEEKEND...WARMER AIR RETURNS WITH MORE SHOWERS EARLY IN THE NEW WORK WEEK...AHEAD OF ANOTHER COLD FRONT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. 20
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 21, 8:47 PM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
847 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1150 AM LIGHTNING 8 SW SHREVEPORT 32.39N 93.89W
01/21/2016 CADDO LA BROADCAST MEDIA
CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND CAUGHT ON FIRE
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EVENT NUMBER SHV1600023
10The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Winter Weather, Union
- When
- January 22, 12:00 AM CST to 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Union forecast zone
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 33.171, -92.597 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in New Jersey, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Blizzard in Pennsylvania, January 22 to 24, 2016
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in New York, January 22 to 24, 2016
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 22 to 24, 2016
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Virginia, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Georgia, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in North Carolina, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Florida, January 22, 2016
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Kentucky, January 22 to 23, 2016
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, January 22, 2016
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, January 2016
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 610096, 610097.