After a rare White Christmas for much of the South Plains the year prior, Christmas of 2012 saw portions of the South Plains blanketed by a swath of mostly light snow; however, a narrow corridor of heavy snow between 4 and 6 inches took aim from Littlefield northwest to Friona. During the overnight hours of Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day, a strong upper trough moved across New Mexico and into West Texas by Christmas morning. At the surface, an intensifying low pressure system developed across eastern New Mexico and pushed into Central Texas during the morning hours. This brought a strong cold front through the extreme southern Texas panhandle, South Plains, and Rolling Plains by mid-to-late morning on Christmas Day. Ahead of the front, a light to moderate band of snow impacted much of the extreme southern panhandle, South Plains and Rolling Plains. The snow began diminishing in coverage and intensity by late morning and resulted in a broad snow cover roughly centered along U.S. Highway 84 from Farwell southeast to Post. Within this snow field, a very narrow band of moderate to heavy snow deposited 3 to 6 inches from Parmer County southeast to southern Lubbock County. This welcome snow did lead to a few dozen minor traffic accidents throughout the South Plains region, most of which were focused along Highways 60 and 214 in Parmer County where some of the heaviest snow fell. Reports of injuries, if any, were not available.
Snow totals included: 6 inches at Friona (Parmer County) and Littlefield (Lamb County), 5 inches in Muleshoe (Bailey County), 3.5 inches at Slaton (Lubbock County), 2 inches at Woodrow 3WNW (Lubbock County) and Ropesville 6NNW (Hockley County), 1.5 inches at New Home (Lynn County), and 1 inch at Dimmitt (Castro County), Lubbock 7SW (Lubbock County), Shallowater (Lubbock County), Ropesville 6NNW (Hockley County), Tahoka (Lynn County), and also at Paducah 15S (Cottle County). Remaining counties throughout in the NWS Lubbock forecast area generally measured a trace to a few tenths of an inch of snow. At the Lubbock Airport, just 0.1 of snow was measured, failing to qualify for an official White Christmas unlike the year prior.

Winter Storm in PARMER, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 00:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer

Winter Storm in LAMB, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 05:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 12:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer

Winter Weather in CASTRO, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 01:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer

Winter Weather in TERRY, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 08:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Weather in HOCKLEY, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 07:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Weather in LYNN, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 08:30:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Weather in GARZA, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 08:30:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer

Winter Weather in SWISHER, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 07:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 10:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer

Winter Weather in COCHRAN, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 06:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 10:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer

Winter Weather in LUBBOCK, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 08:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Employee

Winter Storm in BAILEY, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 03:00:00 to 25-DEC-12 11:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Winter Weather in KING, TEXAS
From 25-DEC-12 08:30:00 to 25-DEC-12 12:00:00 (CST-6)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: COOP Observer