Winter Weather — Potter, Texas

2008-01-31 · Potter, Texas

Event narrative

Snow...between two and three inches...and blowing snow with winds of thirty-five miles per hour...resulted in a forty-two car accident on Interstate 40 in the eastbound lanes of the sixty-seven hundred block just west of Whitaker Road at 0542 CST. One person was killed and two people were injured. A sixty-five year old Amarillo man was identified as the victim in the accident. A fire truck from the Amarillo Fire Department became involved in the accident on Interstate 40 when it rolled over while approaching the accident and laid upside down on its top. No one from the four member crew of the fire truck were injured.

Wider weather episode

Two to three inches of snow and windy conditions created areas of near zero visibilities in blowing snow...which resulted in a forty-two car accident on Interstate 40. The accident occurred in the eastbound lanes just west of Whitaker Road at 0542 CST. One person was killed and two people were injured. A sixty-five year-old Amarillo man was identified as the lone fatality. A fire truck from the Amarillo Fire Department became involved in the accident on Interstate 40 when it rolled over while approaching the accident and landed upside down. No one from the four member crew of the fire truck were injured. A thirty-seven year-old man was also killed in a separate accident in the three hundred block of East St. Francis Avenue at 0730 CST due to the poor weather conditions.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 74241. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.