Thunderstorm Wind — Hockley, Texas

2025-06-02 · near Ropesville, Hockley, Texas

Event narrative

A trained spotter estimated wind gusts up to 60 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 1254650. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.