Thunderstorm Wind — Swisher, Texas

2024-06-06 · near Tulia, Swisher, Texas

Event narrative

A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Tulia measured severe wind gusts from 1943 CST through 1944 CST. A peak wind gust of 64 mph was measured at 1943 CST.

Wider weather episode

On the afternoon of the sixth, a cold front was slowly moving across the central Texas panhandle. South of the front, southeasterly low level winds pumped strong low level moisture into the region. Hot temperatures allowed thunderstorms to develop along the frontal boundary in the afternoon and drift southeastward. Thunderstorms continually grew upscale as a strong outflow boundary surged ahead of the initial thunderstorm development. The atmosphere in the extreme southern Texas Panhandle was characterized by inverted-V soundings which favored severe wind gusts from thunderstorms. A few of the storms did produce severe wind gusts from Castro into Swisher Counties.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1174437. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.