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Local Weather History For February 20th...
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1961 (20th-21st): The biggest snowstorm of the season and one of the heaviest ever on record for the South Plains struck
Hockley, Yoakum, Lamb, Cochran, Lubbock, and Terry Counties. Amounts ranged from 10 to 20 inches with 20 inches measured at both Plains and Levelland and 12 inches recorded at Lubbock...both of which set 24-hour records for snowfall. At Levelland, the weight of 20 inches of snow collapsed roofs of four cotton warehouses and a number of carports. The roof of one warehouse collapsed in Lubbock. |