An arctic cold front will send temperatures plunging in North Texas around sunset Tuesday. The expected impacts of the cold front prompted the National Weather Service to issue both a winter weather advisory and extreme cold warning for Dallas-Fort Worth and surrounding areas.

The NWS has issued an Extreme Cold Warning and Winter Weather Advisory for Oklahoma and parts of Texas due to severe wind chills and mixed precipitation.

A wide swath of Texas ranging from the northern Panhandle to the central interior will see a drastic shift in temperatures this week as a strong cold front barrels into the state. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters are expecting the mercury to begin dropping on Tueseday and last through Thursday and Friday.