Winter Weather — Gray, Texas

2025-02-12 · Gray, Texas

Event narrative

Received multiple reports of accident across the I-40 corridor running through Grey County. These reports fell between 0550CST

to 0850CST. Reports of one accident in the city of Pampa, alongside 2 to 3 more along highway 60.

Wider weather episode

Light drizzle and fog started just after midnight on the morning of 2/12. Roads were already pretreated for snow prospects and kept ice from forming until about 5 or 6 in the morning. It was at this time that a strong cold front came through and dropped temperatures to a point where the brine on the road would not work and a thin layer of ice between 0.01 and 0.02 was just enough to wreak havoc especially on travel and caused several accidents across the Texas Panhandle.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1238691. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.