Winter Weather — Castro, Texas

2025-03-08 · Castro, Texas

Wider weather episode

A slow moving upper level low emerged from New Mexico and passed slowly across the South Plains region on the eighth. On the night of the seventh, a cold front moved through the region lowering temperatures for snow production. Initially, the air moving in behind the cold front was lacking in low level moisture. However, moisture gradually increased throughout the day as lift persisted ahead of the approaching upper level low. This led to precipitation expanding in coverage and intensify over the extreme southern Texas Panhandle and northern Rolling Plains during the afternoon and evening. Temperatures started out mild enough to support a cold rain, but the persistent and increasingly intense precipitation was sufficient to gradually cool the low levels enough to result in a change over to snow. A band of heavy snowfall developed along a corridor from Silverton (Briscoe County) through Turkey (Hall County) and Northfield (Motley County) where six to nine inches of snow was observed.

Snowfall totals from NWS cooperative weather observers are listed below:

8.7 inches at Silverton (Briscoe County),

8.5 inches at Northfield (Motley County),

6.5 inches at Turkey (Hall County),

4.0 inches at Flomot (Motley County),

4.0 inches at Tulia (Swisher County),

3.5 inches at Kirkland (Childress County),

3.5 inches at Childress (Childress County)

3.0 inches at Tell (Childress County),

3.0 inches at 15S Paducah (King County),

3.0 inches at Matador (Motley County),

2.0 inches at 10S Paducah (Cottle County),

2.0 inches at Friona (Parmer County),

1.7 inches at Dimmitt (Castro County), and

1.5 inches at Guthrie (King County).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1232558. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.