High Wind — Hale, Texas

2024-04-06 · Hale, Texas

Wider weather episode

A strong upper level low pressure system moving across the southwestern US brought widespread high winds to West Texas from the morning into the afternoon of the sixth. A Pacific cold front initially moved through the region beginning around sunrise in the western South Plains and exiting the Rolling Plains before noon. Strong westerly surface winds were immediately observed in the wake of the cold front. Deep boundary layer mixing carried strong winds to the surface from 850mb shortly after sunrise and persisted into the afternoon for most of the South Plains and extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle.

High wind gusts from the Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet network are below:

66 mph at Muleshoe (Bailey County),

65 mph at Shallowater (Lubbock County),

64 mph at Friona (Parmer County),

63 mph at Plainview (Hale County),

62 mph at Abernathy (Hale County),

62 mph at Dimmitt (Castro County),

61 mph at Floydada (Floyd County),

60 mph at Amherst (Lamb County),

60 mph at Happy (Swisher County),

60 mph at Silverton (Briscoe County),

59 mph at Hart (Castro County),

59 mph at Tulia (Swisher County),

59 mph at Plains (Yoakum County),

59 mph at Denver City (Yoakum County),

58 mph at Anton (Hockley County), and

58 mph at Reese (Lubbock County).

The following high wind reports are from Automated Surface Observing Stations (ASOS):

66 mph at Lubbock International Airport (Lubbock County).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1162248. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.