Extreme Cold Watch, Texas
SevereWind chills as low as 10 below zero. Cold wind chills as low as 5 below zero could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken.
Ended Thursday, January 22, 2026.
Replaced by the Extreme Cold Warning on Thursday, January 22, 2:35 in the afternoon.
- Issued
- Expires
- Updated
Places in this watch
- Abilene
- San Angelo
- Brownwood
- Sweetwater
- Brady
- Potosi
- Coleman
- Clyde
- Ballinger
- Grape Creek
- San Saba
- Haskell
- Early
- Stamford
- Ozona
- Sonora
- Merkel
- Junction
- Winters
- Anson
- Mason
- Albany
- Hamlin
- Eldorado
- Bangs
- Baird
- Lake Brownwood
- Menard
- Rotan
- Roscoe
- Tye
- Sterling City
- Eden
- Robert Lee
- Santa Anna
- Bronte
- Cross Plains
- Miles
- Tuscola
- Thunderbird Bay
- Mertzon
- Throckmorton
- Carlsbad
- Roby
- Rule
- Hawley
- Buffalo Gap
- Christoval
- Blanket
- Lawn
- Rowena
- Trent
- May
- Blackwell
- Lueders
- Rochester
- Richland Springs
- Paint Rock
- Moran
- Woodson
- Zephyr
- Weinert
- Rochelle
- Melvin
- Novice
- Valera
- O'Brien
- Wingate
- McCaulley
- Putnam
- Sylvester
- Elbert
- Impact
How much
- Wind chill
- As low as 10 below zero
Map
- This watch
- Interstates
- US highways
- US border
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 10 below zero possible.
- Where
- A portion of west central Texas.
- When
- From Saturday afternoon through Monday morning.
- Impacts
- Cold wind chills as low as 5 below zero could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken. Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures. An extended period of freezing temperatures could cause ruptured water pipes.
Updates
-
Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 22, 2026
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Extreme Cold Watch issued for Saturday afternoon through Monday afternoon. January 21, 2026