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Texas Panhandle faces 15 inches of snow, ‘historic’ blizzard
A storm system will intensify to the south and southeast of the panhandles Saturday night into Monday.
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Neighboring states in the central USA prepared for snow, ice, heavy rain and thunderstorms ahead of a weekend storm system sure to cause travel headaches as families travel home from the Christmas holiday.
After the first wave of the winter storm passed, most of the Lubbock and surrounding counties were left with icy roadways and high snow drifts. Snow drifts could reach several feet high as winds gust in excess of 50 miles per hour, leading to whiteout conditions. Blizzard warnings were also in effect for parts of northern and central New Mexico.
Heavy snowfall amounts of from 10 to 18 inches are forecast through Sunday evening across much of western/northwestern Texas, with 18 to 24 inches forecast across portions of New Mexico.
The worst-hit area will likely be the Texas Panhandle, where a crippling blizzard will produce 6 to 19 inches of snow with locally higher amounts.
Three to 6 inches of rain (with locally higher amounts) is expected for North Texas, with more than 8 inches possible to the north and northeast along the Red River into Oklahoma, where amounts could exceed 10 inches – leading to very unsafe flash flooding conditions.
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The snow and winter weather in the central states this weekend will move toward the Eastern Tennessee Valley early next week, followed by cooling temperatures that should bring more normal weather to the South and Northeast by midweek, Storm Prediction Center forecaster Corey Mead said.