MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0220
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   1054 AM CST MON FEB 25 2013
   
   AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS OF THE TX PANHANDLE...ERN OK
   PANHANDLE...WRN INTO N-CNTRL OK....S-CNTRL KS
   
   CONCERNING...BLIZZARD 
   
   VALID 251654Z - 252230Z
   
   SUMMARY...HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE/SHIFT E/NE ACROSS THE MCD AREA
   THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. BLIZZARD CONDITIONS CURRENTLY ONGOING ACROSS
   THE TX PANHANDLE ALSO WILL SHIFT E/NE INTO PORTIONS OF NW OK/S-CNTRL
   KS BY LATE AFTERNOON. WIDESPREAD 1 INCH PER HOUR SNOWFALL RATES ARE
   EXPECTED WITH LOCALLY 2 INCHES PER HOUR POSSIBLE.
   
   DISCUSSION...HEAVY SNOW BAND CURRENTLY EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF
   LUBBOCK NORTH-NORTHEAST ACROSS THE ERN TX PANHANDLE INTO NW OK WILL
   CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SNOWFALL RATES OF 1-2 INCHES PER HOUR THE NEXT
   FEW HOURS. A SFC LOW LOCATED BETWEEN CDS AND SPS AT 16Z WILL SLOWLY
   SHIFT E/NE ALONG THE RED RIVER INTO S-CNTRL OK THIS AFTERNOON IN
   TANDEM WITH UPPER LOW. AS THIS OCCURS...HEAVIEST SNOW WILL SHIFT
   E/NE IN CONCERT WITH FAVORABLE DEFORMATION ZONE/850 MB FRONTOGENESIS
   FROM THE ERN TX PANHANDLE INTO WRN OK/S-CNTRL KS. EVIDENCE OF THIS
   EWD SHIFT WAS NOTED FROM NEAR END TOWARD CSM IN OK AS RAIN WAS
   CHANGING TO SNOW OVER THE LAST HOUR. THIS TRANSITION WILL CONTINUE
   EWD ALONG/TO THE WEST OF THE I-35/I-44 CORRIDOR IN OK BY LATE
   AFTERNOON. STRONG 850 MB JET ON THE BACK SIDE OF LOW WILL OVERSPREAD
   WRN INTO N-CNTRL OK/S-CNTRL KS BY LATE AFTERNOON AND BLIZZARD
   CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED.
   
   ..LEITMAN.. 02/25/2013
   
   
   ATTN...WFO...TSA...ICT...OUN...DDC...LUB...AMA...
   
   LAT...LON   37799944 37310075 36910140 36220204 35280261 34570267
               33970249 33690223 33580185 33640120 33910020 34789873
               35089831 35589755 36799671 37219653 37629676 37899754
               37879845 37799944