High Wind — Lipscomb, Texas

2025-03-19 · Lipscomb, Texas

Event narrative

Frequent and numerous gusts between 59 and 81 mph occurred between 0144CDT and 0417CDT with the arrival of a sting jet. Winds continued to stay breezy and gusty falling below high wind criteria between 0418CDT and 0932CDT. Then, winds picked back up with multiple separate wind gusts of 58 to 62 mph wind gusts occurred between 0933CDT and 1253CDT with sustained winds reaching 35 mph plus.

Wider weather episode

On March 18th, we had our last high wind, blowing dust, and extreme critical fire danger event of the month. Strong winds and multi wildfires occurred on the day of the 18th. Fire Warnings were issued in Dallam county for a fire on the northside of the county, and in Hutchison county when a fire broke out on the westside of Borger. The strongest winds actually transpired overnight into the early morning hours of the 19th due to an upper level meteorological feature that moved across the region called a sting jet. This extratropical cyclone brought strong +70 mph winds overnight and strong winds continued into the 19th alongside critical fire danger until relative humidity values finally recovered later in the afternoon.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1246103. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.