Texas Winter 2013-2014

[Texas Snowman]

More heavy sleet in Denison.

[iorange55]

Looks like storms are firing up just south/south west of Dallas county.


EDIT: Heavy sleet now in Cedar Hill.

[Texas Snowman]

More storms firing near Stephenville.

And more precip still out to the west from Childress towards Abilene.

[ravyrn]

I think precip is largely over for DFW, just a few stray areas of light freezing rain / sleet. Tyler and eastward will enjoy some wintry precip.

I just want 1 rumble of this infamous thundersleet we've read so much about today on this forum. I suspect you're experience is much like mine with very little sleet on the ground. When the precip total graphics come out tomorrow or next day, it'll show our area as one of those that didn't get much.

It seems like there's always a dry spot around Rockwall. I recall numerous precipitation maps from various events have a glob of lower precipitation amounts around your area.

[Lagreeneyes03]

Meanwhile, anyone see the 12z Euro op run? .... hee, hee ... we may get to do this all over again next weekend!

The PWC promised you a better winter than 12-13 and we delivered!!

Here, here! Three cheers to our fearless leader at PWC headquarters!!!

No way! ?? I thought it was supposed to be back up to 60's and 70's from Thursday and onward.

[TrekkerCC]

The convective activity seems to end soon after the Ft. Worth band moves eastward...according to FWD, copying relevant section:

FOR THE WINTER STORM WARNING AREA...MOST OF THE WINTRY
ACCUMULATIONS HAPPENED DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...AND ONLY
LIGHT ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED. LIGHT ADDITIONAL
ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO ONE TENTH OF AN INCH OF SLEET ARE POSSIBLE
THROUGH SUNSET. FOR THOSE LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY EARLIER...ROADS WILL REMAIN SLICK. ANY LOCATIONS THAT
MISSED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...EVEN IN THE WINTER STORM WARNING
AREA...LIKELY HAVE NOT RECEIVED ENOUGH ACCUMULATIONS FOR PRIMARY
ROADWAYS TO BE VERY ICY. BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES HOWEVER COULD BE
ICY ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS...AS TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE LOWER
TO MID 20S FOR MANY LOCATIONS.

Those that seem to have the most during the event are folks north of I-20 (Collin/Denton and Northwards) and Tarrant County.

However, Mr. Cavanaugh does make a lot of good observations about the next event on Tuesday. It seems like we will have another round on Tuesday that could be significant, especially for Central Texas: http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=1

I'm getting moderate to heavy sleet here at the moment.

[katheria]

I think precip is largely over for DFW, just a few stray areas of light freezing rain / sleet. Tyler and eastward will enjoy some wintry precip.

I just want 1 rumble of this infamous thundersleet we've read so much about today on this forum. I suspect you're experience is much like mine with very little sleet on the ground. When the precip total graphics come out tomorrow or next day, it'll show our area as one of those that didn't get much.

It seems like there's always a dry spot around Rockwall. I recall numerous precipitation maps from various events have a glob of lower precipitation amounts around your area.

include north eastern garland also. only 12 miles from rockwall. ive said for years we have a dome over us....
took a look outside. just enough to put some ice on car windows streets look wet, just too cold to check them out lol

[Ralph's Weather]

Thundersleet for a while now snowing lightly.

[gboudx]

It seems like there's always a dry spot around Rockwall. I recall numerous precipitation maps from various events have a glob of lower precipitation amounts around your area.

Right now we have what I can only explain as snow mist. It's really fine, blowing around and reducing visibility.

[ravyrn]

I haven't looked at the Euro, but the GFS is not on board at this moment.


12Z GFS


18Z GFS

[weatherdude1108]

68 this morning. 30 at 5pm. Ice forming on patio furniture. I saw at one point this afternoon it was 4 in the panhandle, and 95 in the valley at the same hour! Only in Texas!

[katheria]

latest winter precip in dfw that i could find on record was april 14 1928 with a trace of snow...

just a fun fact

[ndale]

68 this morning. 30 at 5pm. Ice forming on patio furniture. I saw at one point this afternoon it was 4 in the panhandle, and 95 in the valley at the same hour! Only in Texas!

After reading your post, I just checked and I have ice on my grill on our patio.

[ravyrn]

18Z NAM

[TheProfessor]

Looks like light band has developed just east of Abilene. Any chance at it strengthening?

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

What was the name given to that longhorn of yours down there?

[Tireman4]

Bevo, Ms. Screamer.....

[orangeblood]

Unofficially, it appears DFW received 0.06 inch QPF from this event....these models are horrendous with qpf amounts sometimes.

[Ralph's Weather]

Sleet has made the road slushy and another heavy band is hitting now. Temps are around 28, but I expect that temps will drop some more after sunset before it all ends here. Tomorrow morning will be mighty cold.

[TrekkerCC]

Looks like light band has developed just east of Abilene. Any chance at it strengthening?

I don't know, there were signs on the models of a wrap around band at the end, but it seems to die out by the time it gets here on the RAP, etc. The best lift is going to be transitioning east and somewhat drier air is filtering in. However, we might have a stray light sleet shower here and there during the evening.

I do want to say that I was lucky enough to be under a thundersleet shower and I have never, ever (not in Dec 2013 or Feb 2011) seen it come down as hard as it did for a minute or two. I wish I had presence of mind to capture it on film, but the sleet accumulated rapidly (and I had sleet before). The roads where the heavy sleetstorms occurred are going to rapidly become very bad tonight as the sleet hardens and becomes a solid sheet. Parts of Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties are going to be very bad to drive on later tonight and tomorrow. I suspect that some school districts around town are going to delay or close tomorrow due to this event, because ice is very tricky to drive on.