Strong Wind — Martin, Texas

2025-06-09 · Martin, Texas

Event narrative

LANDSPOUT. Location: 32.260,-101.940/32.270,-104.930. An off-duty NWS employee and another chaser reported two landspouts that lasted for about seven minutes. The distance that the pair of landspouts travelled is estimated by radar. No damage was reported, and the maximum wind gust associated with the landspouts is also estimated. The size of the landspouts were approximately 25 yards.

Wider weather episode

A cold front/outflow boundary, coupled with vorticity maxima in the northwesterly flow aloft, resulted in the development of severe thunderstorms in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico during the evening and overnight hours on June 9th. Supercells formed initially, but storms eventually grew upscale later that night. These storms produced multiple instances of severe winds (especially the MCS) and large hail. A landspout was also reported in Martin County.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1267100. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.