Winter Weather — Oldham, Texas

2025-02-12 · Oldham, Texas

Event narrative

At least a dozen auto accidents occurred in the county. Some were along Interstate 40 from mile marker 9 to mile marker 44. There was an accident at U.S. Highway 385 and FM 1061.

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 1238701. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.