Winter Storm — Hunt, Texas

2022-02-02 to 2022-02-03 · Hunt, Texas

Event narrative

A social media report indicated a quarter of an inch of freezing rain in the city of Greenville, TX. A woman was found deceased in her garage in Celeste from accidental carbon monoxide pensioning due to loss of power. From the Sheriff's Office: There was also a gas-powered generator, that had run out of gas, inside the garage..

Wider weather episode

An arctic cold front ushered sub-freezing temperatures into the region while an upper level storm system generated widespread precipitation, leading to a winter storm across North and Central Texas during the first week of February 2022. The highest accumulations of snow and sleet occurred across the northwestern portions of North Texas where 3-5 accumulations occurred.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1008006. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.