Winter Weather in Texas, January 15 to 16, 2022

Name: Winter Weather in Texas, January 15 to 16, 2022
Start: 2022-01-15T15:58
End: 2022-01-16T03:34
Location: Texas

January 15 to 16, 2022 · NWS SHV · 11 events in 11 counties and zones

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 11 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 3
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 11

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.

A strong upper level low pressure system moved through the Red River Valley into East Texas and North Louisiana during the afternoon and evening of January 15th, reinforcing a strong cold front through East Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and North Louisiana during the morning hours. This front ushered subfreezing temperatures into portions of Northeast Texas, Southwest Arkansas, and Southeast Oklahoma during the afternoon hours, with large scale forcing increasing on the north side of the low over these areas atop the subfreezing air mass. Thus, areas of snow, some of which was heavy, developed and resulted in accumulations on elevated objects including bridges and overpasses, as well as grassy surfaces. Snowfall amounts of a dusting to 2 inches fell across these portions of extreme Northeast Texas, before quickly diminishing after midnight on the 16th with the departure of the low pressure system to the east into Central Mississippi. Unfortunately, one indirect fatality occurred around 230 am on the 16th when a driver lost control of her vehicle while crossing an icy bridge on Interstate 30 along the Morris/Bowie County line, hitting the concrete side rails. The driver was ejected from the vehicle and succumbed to her injuries. Three juveniles were also ejected from the vehicle and were injured.

Here are some of the snowfall totals reported in Northeast Texas:

In Red River County, Avery recorded 1.5 inches. |In Bowie County, De Kalb recorded 1.0 inches and Hooks 0.5 inches.|In Cass County, 7 E Hughes Springs measured 1.0 inches, and Hughes Springs 0.3 inches. |In Titus County, Mount Pleasant measured 1.5 inches. |In Camp County, 1 N Pittsburg reported 1.0 inches.|In Franklin County, Mount Vernon measured 0.1 inches. |In Upshur County, 4.5 ESE Gilmer measured 0.3 inches. |In Gregg County, White Oak reported 0.5 inches, and 2 ESE Longview 0.3 inches. |In Harrison County, 4.6 WSW Harleton measured 0.5 inches, and 4 S Hallsville 0.1 inches.

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 15, 3:38 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 3:38 PM CST, 20 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

11 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, Red River

When: January 15, 3:58 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Red River forecast zone
Reported by: COOP Observer
Coordinates: 33.621, -95.050 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Bowie

When: January 15, 3:58 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Bowie forecast zone
Deaths: 0 direct, 1 indirect
Injuries: 0 direct, 3 indirect
Reported by: COOP Observer
Coordinates: 33.446, -94.423 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Cass

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Cass forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 33.078, -94.344 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Morris

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Morris forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 33.114, -94.733 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Titus

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Titus forecast zone
Reported by: COOP Observer
Coordinates: 33.217, -94.966 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Franklin

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Franklin forecast zone
Reported by: COOP Observer
Coordinates: 33.176, -95.218 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Camp

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Camp forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 32.973, -94.978 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Upshur

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Upshur forecast zone
Reported by: CoCoRaHS
Coordinates: 32.736, -94.941 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Gregg

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Gregg forecast zone
Reported by: Trained Spotter
Coordinates: 32.481, -94.817 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Harrison

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Harrison forecast zone
Reported by: CoCoRaHS
Coordinates: 32.548, -94.371 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Marion

When: January 15, 7:26 PM CST to January 16, 3:34 AM CST
Where: Marion forecast zone
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 32.798, -94.357 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The people who died

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
Winter Weather, Bowie	2022-01-16	58	Female	Vehicle/Towed Trailer	Indirect

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

Every storm in Texas in 2022 Every state in 2022 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, January 2022

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: 994120, 994121, 994122, 994123, 994124, 994125, 994126, 994127, 994128, 994129, 994130.