High Wind — Cottle, Texas

2023-07-14 · Cottle, Texas

Wider weather episode

A weak mid level short wave trough combined with very hot temperatures to generate scattered thunderstorms late on the afternoon of the 13th. The hot temperatures allowed for a deeply mixed boundary layer giving thunderstorms high cloud bases. These storms slowly moved to the east through the evening creating scattered severe wind gusts. A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Hackberry (Cottle County) measured a severe wind gust with outflow winds well away from the thunderstorm activity.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1104706. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.