High Wind — Terry, Texas

2025-03-18 · Terry, Texas

Wider weather episode

A powerful storm system on the 18th brought widespread high winds and thick blowing dust. This system moved out of the Great Basin into Colorado throughout the day. Although winds became breezy during the afternoon hours in response to this approaching storm system, the strongest winds didn't arrive until a Pacific Cold front moved through the area around sunset. This boundary brought an abrupt wind shift to the west along with thick blowing dust from eastern New Mexico and Far West Texas. Blowing dust resulted in brownout conditions across the region leading to hazardous travel conditions. Winds began to decrease from west to east late in the evening as another cold front moved into the area from the north. This secondary cold front brought renewed high winds across the extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle into the early morning hours of the 19th. Breezy northwest winds remained in place through the day on the 19th which led to an isolated severe wind gust on the afternoon of the 19th in Parmer County.

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

79 mph at Amherst (Lamb County),

69 mph at Graham (Garza County),

69 mph at Muleshoe (Bailey County),

69 mph at Wolfforth (Lubbock County),

68 mph at Shallowater (Lubbock County),

68 mph at Plains (Yoakum County),

68 mph at Slaton (Lubbock County),

68 mph at New Deal (Lubbock County),

68 mph at New Home (Lynn County),

68 mph at Floydada (Floyd County),

68 mph at O'Donnell (Lynn County),

68 mph at Olton (Lamb County),

67 mph at Sundown (Cochran County),

67 mph at Plainview (Hale County),

67 mph at Tahoka (Lynn County),

67 mph at Brownfield (Terry County),

67 mph at Paducah (Cottle County),

67 mph at Levelland (Hockley County),

66 mph at Lesley (Hall County),

66 mph at McAdoo (Dickens County),

66 mph at Ralls (Crosby County),

66 mph at Denver City (Yoakum County),

65 mph at Guthrie (King County),

65 mph at White River Lake (Crosby County),

65 mph at Hackberry (Cottle County),

65 mph at Anton (Hockley County),

65 mph at Roaring Springs (Motley County),

65 mph at Morton (Cochran County),

64 mph at Silverton (Briscoe County),

64 mph at Flomot (Motley County),

64 mph at Post (Garza County),

64 mph at Abernathy (Hale County),

63 mph at Caprock Canyons State Park (Briscoe County),

63 mph at Friona (Parmer County),

63 mph at Spur (Dickens County),

63 mph at Jayton (Kent County),

63 mph at Northfield (Motley County),

62 mph at Tulia (Swisher County),

62 mph at Turkey (Hall County),

62 mph at Hart (Castro County),

62 mph at Earth (Lamb County),

61 mph at Matador (Motley County),

60 mph at Dimmitt (Castro County),

60 mph at Estelline (Hall County),

60 mph at Lake Alan Henry (Garza County),

59 mph at Memphis (Hall County),

59 mph at Aiken (Hale County),

58 mph at Vigo Park (Swisher County),

58 mph at Happy (Swisher County).

The following high wind reports are from Automated Surface Observing Stations (ASOS) and Automated Weather Observing Systems (AWOS):

78 mph at Lubbock International Airport (Lubbock County),

66 mph at Levelland Municipal Airport (Hockley County),

61 mph at Childress Municipal Airport (Childress County),

60 mph at Denver City Airport (Yoakum County),

59 mph at Plainview-Hale County Airport (Hale County).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1232761. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.