At a Glance

Snow blanketed a large part of the South from Texas to Alabama and Tennessee.Some areas picked up over 6 inches of snow.Not only were roads slick, but power outages and downed trees resulted.

A winter storm dumped snow from Colorado to parts of the Deep South, and was one of the heaviest snowfalls in 10 years or more for parts of Texas and Louisiana.

This weather system was named Winter Storm Lana by The Weather Channel.

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The heavy, wet nature of the snow from this storm snapped tree branches and contributed to power outages in some locations from central and eastern Texas into northern Louisiana. in these areas as of early morning on January 11, according to poweroutage.us.

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This winter storm began along the Front Range of the Rockies on January 9, where it brought a few inches of snowfall to parts of Colorado and New Mexico.

Snowfall then piled up across a broad area of western, central and eastern Texas on January 10. The snow also spread eastward across northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, Mississippi, northwest Alabama, into parts of Tennessee, southwest Virginia and far western North Carolina into January 11.

The storm produced snowfall totals of 6 inches or more in spots from west-central Texas to areas southwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, to areas of east Texas and extreme western Louisiana. East of there, snowfall totals were generally in the 1 to 4 inch range.

Estimated snowfall map of Winter Storm Lana from Jan. 9-11, 2021. The heavier snowfall totals were estimated by radar to occur in the areas shaded in light purple.

In Waco, Texas, it was the heaviest snowfall - 4.4 inches - since January 13, 1982. The city averages only about 1 inch of snow each year.

Shreveport, Louisiana, picked up just over 3 inches of snow, their most substantial snowfall in almost 10 years.

Austin, Texas (1.3 inches); San Antonio, Texas (0.2 inch); and Jackson, Mississippi (1.2 inches) each had their heaviest snow since an early December 2017 snowstorm.

Here are a few other peak and notable snowfall totals from this storm by state.

Colorado: 5 inches near Boulder; 1.9 inches at Denver International Airport

New Mexico: 8 inches in Hobbs; 2.7 inches in Carlsbad

Texas: 11 inches in Denver City; 8 inches in Stephenville; 7.6 inches in Lubbock; 5.3 inches in Abilene; 4.5 inches in College Station; 4.4 inches in Waco

Louisiana: 6 inches near Zwolle; 3.2 inches in Shreveport; up to 2.5 inches in Monroe

Mississippi: 6.5 inches in Nanih Waiya; 3.5 inches in Vicksburg; up to 4 inches in ; 1 inch in Tupelo

Alabama: 3 inches in Ethelsville; 1 inch in Athens

Luke West, 21 months, point out the snow covered yard to his mother, Anna Laura West, in Jackson, Miss., Monday morning, Jan. 11, 2021. A winter storm coated parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi with snow on Sunday and into Monday morning. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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