Snow continued into the early afternoon hours on the 21st across East Texas before ending. A strong upper level low pressure system tracked across Central Texas and brought a significant snow event to the region. The highest accumulations of 3 to 5 inches occurred south of I near where the center of the upper low tracked. Snow began in the Hill Country during the early morning hours. Heavy snow spread across Central Texas and moved into East Texas during the afternoon hours before ending.
Record breaking snow fell across North Central Texas. Cold air was already in place when a slow moving upper level low approached. The low slowed significantly as it got closer to the region, and this allowed relatively warm and moist air to move over the colder air at the surface for an extended period of time.
This very unusual event brought snowfall totals of a foot or more for many locations around the DFW Metroplex. Haslet reported Widespread power outages resulted from the heavy snow, weighing down tree limbs and breaking transmission lines. Clean up from the tree damage lasted for weeks. A powerful upper level low brought near blizzard conditions to North Texas on Christmas Eve.
Winds gusted to 40 to 50 mph while snow was falling resulting in very low visibilities and blowing snow. Snow began to fall during the late morning hours, increasing in intensity during the afternoon.
Snowfall amounts were heaviest northwest of the Metroplex where Graham and Bowie recorded 6 to 9 inches of snow. This snow remained on the ground the next morning, giving many areas a white Christmas.
Rain changed over to heavy snow and thundersnow during the late morning hours in areas northwest of the DFW Metroplex. Decatur and Gainesville reported 9 inches of snow with this event. More light snow developed across the eastern Metroplex and into Northeast Texas in the early morning hours of March 7, but amounts were less than 1 inch.
Freezing rain affected most of the area north of Interstate 20 on the 25thth. Up to four inches of ice was reported from Montague County east to Lamar County as well as much of northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma, and western Arkansas. Sleet and snow occurred over much of North Texas the night of the 27th. A small area of inches fell over northern Hamilton, northwest Bosque, all of Erath, eastern Eastland, and western Palo Pinto.
Up to an inch of sleet and snow fell at Paris on the 25th. Freezing rain, sleet and snow were more widespread the 26thth, affecting most of north Texas, but more over the northern half. Accumulations ranged from 2 inches in the northwest to 5 inches in the northeast. Between inches accumulated over the northeast counties as part of a general ice storm over much of North Texas.
Severe drought plagued North Texas throughout the winter months, but this Good Friday brought abundant rainfall and one of the heaviest April snowstorms on record. Some sleet mixed with the rain before a complete transition to snow occurred west of a line from Montague to Weatherford to Eastland though some light snow fell as far east as Fort Worth. The heaviest snowfall occurred near the I corridor where Sweetwater accumulated 18 inches.
The 9. Six inches fell in Breckenridge. Between inches fell in a band from Hamilton to Hillsboro to Tyler, with Clifton and Itasca reporting 15 inches for the event. Indianapolis received 0. Above is a surface map with radar valid at PM February 1.
Click on the image to see a loop of the surface map from the evening of January 31 to the morning of February 2. Above is a water vapor satellite image valid early on February 2. Click on the image to see a brief loop of this image for the early morning hours of February 2.
The first wave of precipitation fell during the evening of January 31, and this precipitation was mainly freezing rain and sleet, with a little snow across the northern parts of central Indiana.
A list of reports from this wave can be found near the bottom of this page. The second wave of precipitation began in earnest during the afternoon of February 1 and continued into the overnight hours. Across the south, mainly freezing rain was noted. After the strong area of low pressure passed over the area, winds increased with gusts over 50 mph reported.
This wind created blowing and drifting snow across the north, and caused trees and power lines to come down across areas that saw freezing rain. Travel became near impossible at many locations, with several counties across central Indiana restricting travel. We crippled transportation across the country. No one could travel out of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the delays caused a ripple effect. By Monday morning AirTran had canceled every single flight for the day.
Not to mention the mess on I where dozens of tractor trailers remained for several days. It was very difficult to find bread and milk or an open restaurant.
It was virtually impossible to drive in midtown Atlanta. The town's paper, the Tulsa World, was not printed this morning. Lorton III. In Indiana, thick ice accumulated overnight, frustrating plow drivers. Freezing rain dumped nearly an inch of ice in Indiana. Ice-coated power lines throughout the Midwest caused massive power outages. Officials warned of dangerous conditions with trees weighed down by ice and falling on power lines. Most power lines are only built to hold a half inch of ice.
While the Northeast is no stranger to snow, this is the seventh storm to hit the region in the past 35 days. The string started with the Dec. Last week's snowstorm broke a record in New York City -- pushing the monthly total to more than 50 inches -- the snowiest January in more than a century.
The average snow total for New York is about 21 inches. Click here for winter weather safety tips from "GMA. We'll notify you here with news about.
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