Winter Weather — Red River, Louisiana

2025-01-20 to 2025-01-21 · Red River, Louisiana

Wider weather episode

A very cold, arctic air mass settled south into the Four State Region on January 19th, and persisted through the 22nd before gradually warming for the final week of January. A strong upper trough of low pressure translated east across Texas into the Northern Gulf on the 20th-21st, resulting in an increase in large scale forcing over portions of the Southeast Texas coast into Central and South Louisiana where the air column was able to moisten sufficiently for areas of moderate to heavy snow across these areas. This system generated historic snowfall totals and cold across South Louisiana, while the northern fringes of this disturbance yielded a dusting to up to 2 inches of snow over portions of Deep East Texas, North and Central Louisiana.

The following are known snowfall totals that were reported over portions of Northern and Central Louisiana:

Desoto Parish: 0.2 inches (a dusting) was measured in Logansport.

Sabine Parish: 1.8 inches was measured in Florien, 1.5 inches at Toledo Bend Dam 18 miles south-southwest of Florien, 1.0 inches at Many, and 0.3 inches in Converse.

Natchitoches Parish: 1.0 inches was measured 3 miles northwest of Campti near Fairview, 1.0 inches in Cloutierville, 0.9 inches 1 mile southwest of Campti, 0.5 inches estimated near the Natchitoches/Rapides Parish line, 0.3 inches 6 miles east-northeast of Campti, and 0.3 inches in Natchitoches.

Winn Parish: 0.7 inches was measured 7 miles south of Winnfield, and 0.5 inches 9 miles east of Winnfield near the Colgrade community.

Grant Parish: 2.0 inches was measured in Bentley, and 1.0 inches in Montgomery.

La Salle Parish: 1.0 inches was measured in Tullos, 1.0 inches in Jena, and 0.5 inches 7 miles west of Jena.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1234279. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.