Blizzard conditions ongoing/developing across southeastern TX Panhandle and southwestern OK. There is widespread snow and mixed precipitation across much of northwest TX into Oklahoma with the mix/snow line still west of Oklahoma City, but blizzard conditions are developing rapidly and spreading deeper into Oklahoma. This will continue through the day and spread into southeastern KS late this afternoon. Blizzard/near blizzard conditions are still expected in the Kansas City metro with the height of the storm sometime around 8pm tonight to 8am Friday morning. The official NWS forecast for Kansas City metro is for 4-7″ with frequent wind gusts in the 30 to 40 mph range. This is blizzard criteria. I would not be surprised to see a whole slew of blizzard warnings issued later on today along the track of the yellow area in the surface chart I annotated:
