Extreme Cold Watch, Texas
SevereWind chills as low as 15 below zero. The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in frostbite and hypothermia if precautions are not taken.
Ended Thursday, January 22, 2026.
Replaced by the Extreme Cold Warning on Thursday, January 22, 11:43 in the morning.
- Issued
- Expires
- Updated
Places in this watch
- Lubbock
- Plainview
- Levelland
- Brownfield
- Littlefield
- Slaton
- Childress
- Wolfforth
- Muleshoe
- Post
- Tulia
- Denver City
- Dimmitt
- Friona
- Shallowater
- Abernathy
- Floydada
- Tahoka
- Idalou
- Hale Center
- Memphis
- Olton
- Bovina
- Morton
- Ralls
- Seth Ward
- Lockney
- Crosbyton
- Farwell
- Plains
- Sundown
- Ransom Canyon
- Paducah
- Petersburg
- Lorenzo
- Sudan
- Anton
- Earth
- Hart
- Spur
- Aspermont
- New Deal
- O'Donnell
- Amherst
- Silverton
- Happy
- Meadow
- Kress
- Matador
- Jayton
- Buffalo Springs Lake
- Smyer
- Wilson
- Ropesville
- Whiteface
- Quitaque
- New Home
- Turkey
- Nazareth
- Wellman
- Opdyke West
- Dickens
- Roaring Springs
- Guthrie
- Springlake
- Estelline
- Whitharral
- Edmonson
- Spade
- Lakeview
- Bledsoe
- Girard
- Summerfield
How much
- Wind chill
- As low as 15 below zero
Map
- This watch
- Interstates
- US highways
Details from the National Weather Service
- What
- Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero possible.
- Where
- The South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far southern Texas Panhandle.
- When
- From late Friday night through Sunday morning.
- Impacts
- The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in frostbite and hypothermia if precautions are not taken. Frostbite can occur in as little as 30 minutes if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures. An extended period of freezing temperatures could cause ruptured water pipes.
Updates
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Extended to Sunday, noon. January 22, 2026
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Reissued with no change to the times or amounts. January 21, 2026
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Extreme Cold Watch issued for Saturday overnight through Saturday afternoon. January 21, 2026