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Dust Storm in Southern Hudspeth Highlands, Texas

Dust Storm April 18, 2025 · Southern Hudspeth Highlands, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

Traffic cameras showed thick dust along Interstate 10 slowing down traffic.

The wider storm

A deep, slow moving upper trough was moving out of the Great Basin and towards the Four Corners region. A 125+ knot jet was located over far west Texas which helped to bring wind gusts to 64 mph to the region and created widespread areas of blowing dust with visibilities under a quarter mile.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1250686. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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