North Texans awoke up to a blanket of snow on Feb. 14, 2021, that turned Fort Worth neighborhoods into winter wonderlands filled with snowmen and sledding. But unlike most winter storms in Texas, where the snow is gone in a day or two, temperatures remained well below freezing.
It ended up being the coldest winter storm in Texas since December 1989 , a record-breaking disaster that caused widespread, prolonged power outages across Texas. Every county as far south as the Rio Grande River was under a winter storm warning , some experiencing wind chills below zero. More than 200 people died .
Here’s a look back at Star-Telegram photos of those brutal days in Fort Worth and Tarrant County.