Thunderstorm Wind — Hale, Texas

2025-06-02 · near Abernathy, Hale, Texas

Event narrative

A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Abernathy measured a wind gust of 58 mph.

Wider weather episode

Scattered thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the second producing severe wind gusts across the South Plains and extreme southern Texas Panhandle. A strong short wave trough moved across southern Arizona into New Mexico bringing robust large scale ascent to West Texas. Very strong surface heating with temperatures warming into the 90s created a deeply mixed boundary layer. Thunderstorms developed early in the afternoon with a quick erosion of a cap, however, the warm surface temperatures kept cloud bases very high. As a result, numerous severe outflow winds were observed from this thunderstorm activity. Several locations around the South Plains incurred damage from the intense winds.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1254649. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.