Strong Wind — Reeves County Plains, Texas

2024-05-16 · Reeves County Plains, Texas

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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_id 1176047. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.