Strong Wind in Reeves County Plains, Texas

Strong Wind May 16, 2024 · Reeves County Plains, Texas

46 mph

Estimated gust (40 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

LANDSPOUT. Location: 31.570N, -103.590W/31.57N, -103.580W. A media partner relayed a video from the public showing a landspout approximately 9 miles south of Mentone. The location and time of the landspout are estimated and no damage was reported.

The wider storm

A positively tilted shortwave trough lifting out of the Four Corners and a stalled cold front over the Permian Basin aided in afternoon thunderstorm development. Numerous thunderstorms formed along and north of the cold front and became an intense squall line with damaging winds.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1176047. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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