Special Weather Statement
Issued by NWS Amarillo, TX
Issued by NWS Amarillo, TX
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403 WWUS84 KAMA 030429 SPSAMA Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Amarillo TX 1029 PM CST Tue Dec 2 2025 OKZ001-002-TXZ001>003-006>008-011>013-016>018-317-031800- Cimarron-Texas-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson- Oldham-Potter-Carson-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong- Palo Duro Canyon- Including the cities of Boise City, Keyes, Guymon, Dalhart, Ware, Conlen, Stratford, Spearman, Gruver, Hartley, Channing, Romero, Dumas, Four Way, Masterson, Borger, Vega, Wildorado, Boys Ranch, Amarillo, Bushland, Panhandle, Pantex, White Deer, Skellytown, Dawn, Hereford, Bootleg, Buffalo Lake, Canyon, Umbarger, Claude, Washburn, Wayside, Goodnight, and Palo Duro Canyon State Park 1029 PM CST Tue Dec 2 2025 Winter weather is on the way to the Panhandles Wednesday afternoon into Thursday. A weather system is expected to move over the Four Corners Wednesday and then track east across New Mexico on Wednesday night. Out ahead of this system a strong cold front, associated with a much larger cold air mass over Canada will bring cold enough temperatures to the Panhandles to allow the precipitation to be in the form of snow. It`s anticipated that this system will produce some snow bands, possibly a narrow area of snow. These band locations could range from the Oklahoma Panhandle down to the southern Texas Panhandle. Right now there`s high uncertainty on the location of the snow bands, so much that winter highlights are currently on hold. As the system approaches and we narrow down the areas that have the greatest chances of impactful accumulating snow, then we`ll add winter highlights as needed. Right now areas covered in this statement have about a 30 to 60 percent chance of receiving at least an inch of snow between Wednesday afternoon, and Thursday evening. But if these turn out to be narrow snow bands, then there could be several areas that receive little to no snow, while more isolated areas pick up 1 to 2 inches of snow. And those same areas would have about a 10 percent chance of greater than 2 inches of snow. As it stands right now the best chance for snow to occur in Oklahoma to northwest Texas would be mid day Wednesday through midnight Wednesday night. West of Amarillo to Guymon has the best chance for snow from 9PM Wednesday through about 6 AM Thursday morning. And east of that same line would be from 3AM to 3PM Thursday. $$