Winter Storm — Coastal Galveston, Texas

2025-01-20 to 2025-01-21 · Coastal Galveston, Texas

Event narrative

Winter precipitation began on the evening on the 20th as a NWS employee reported light sleet falling at the NWS Houston-Galveston Office in Dickinson. Precipitation rates increased overnight, becoming predominantly snow during the early morning hours of the 21st, then diminished during the late morning. One NWS employee measured 0.1875 inches of an ice and sleet mixture accumulated on their personal snow table early in the morning. Later reports from the public, CoCoRaHS station TX-GV-76, a HAM radio operator, a trained storm spotter and multiple NWS employees showed 1.75-3.2 inches of snowfall across the area. The highest amounts were measured around Dickinson and League City.

Wider weather episode

A major winter storm impacted southern United States across the Gulf coast, producing what would go on to be historic levels of snowfall in some areas over Southeast Texas.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1231472. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.