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Special Weather Statement

National Weather Service Amarillo TX

416 AM CST Wed Nov 27 2019



OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-272200-

Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb-

Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson-

Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth-

Palo Duro Canyon-

Including the cities of Boise City, Keyes, Guymon, Beaver, 

Forgan, Dalhart, Stratford, Spearman, Gruver, Perryton, Booker, 

Higgins, Follett, Hartley, Channing, Dumas, Borger, Miami, 

Canadian, Vega, Amarillo, Panhandle, White Deer, Pampa, Shamrock, 

Wheeler, Hereford, Canyon, Claude, Clarendon, Wellington, 

and Palo Duro Canyon

416 AM CST Wed Nov 27 2019



...Wintry Weather is expected to move into the region this evening

and continue through Thanksgiving morning...



An upper level disturbance is forecasted to move northeast from 

the eastern Pacific into the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles later 

this evening through Thanksgiving morning. Wintry weather 

associated with this disturbance is expected to impact holiday

travel starting this evening through Thanksgiving morning. 

Precipitation type across the northwestern and western Panhandles 

is expected to start as snow before transition to a wintry mix 

overnight. Areas across the central and northeastern Panhandles 

will start as a wintry mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain along

with rain before transitioning to more freezing rain and rain 

overnight. The southeast TX Panhandle should remain mostly rain 

with a period of wintry mix possible. Eventually as go into the 

afternoon hours on Thanksgiving, residual precipitation that falls

should be rain as temperatures will be above freezing.



At this time, snow totals of 1 to 2 inches is possible across the

favored western and northwestern combined Panhandles. Total ice 

accumulations of a trace to a couple hundreths of an inch is 

currently forecasted for most of the central and northeastern 

combined Panhandles. If warmer air aloft plays a bigger role in 

the precipitation type, more rainfall vs. wintry precipitation 

could occur.



Please continue to monitor the forecast from the National Weather

Service in Amarillo for the latest information regarding this 

developing winter weather system. 



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