Huge Snow Storm Just Misses El Paso Region.
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Rainbow effect with rain (green) and some heavy rain (dark green), sleet and ice (pink and rose) and further north east of Santa Fe plenty of snow (aqua and blue).
Photo: Image File NWS - VPC
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mammoth snow and ice storn blanketed the southern plains and parts of northern New Mexico but spaired the El Paso Southwest dumping over an inch of rain and by night left a few snow flakes over the region. Areas of higher elevation were given a sparse dusting of snow as the mositure had pretty much gone east.
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Later in the day the next band of moisture hits the El Paso region with snow just to the north of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Photo: Image File NWS - VPC
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The storm stretched across three states including most of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico and had a mixed bag of rain, sleet, forzen rain and snow for different regions as it traveled east.
The ice/snow line was running northeasterly starting just north of Midland, Texas. Northern New Mexico was hit hard by heavy including Santa Fe but mostly east of that region as well as north of Corona. Early in the day Thursday there was still heavy rain just north of Midland and south of Lubbock that was next to an area of freezing rain to the north of that ice line.
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By night fall the storm had moved onto Central Texas and Oklahoma as well as Arkansas.
Photo: Image File NWS - VPC
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Tennessee gets sub-freezing temperatures and about a half inch of snow on Friday.
Photo: Image File NWS - VPC
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