Thunderstorm Wind — Armstrong, Texas

2025-09-20 · near Claude, Armstrong, Texas

Event narrative

A peak wind gust of 64mph was measured at the mesonet site located ten miles east-northeast of Palo Duro Canyon. This occurred at 901pm. The first severe wind gust of 60mph was measured at 8:58pm and the last severe wind gust of 59mph was measured at 9:03pm.

Wider weather episode

Isolated storms materialized in the afternoon and evening hours of September 20th, with activity focused on primarily the eastern to central Panhandles. This is where conditions were favorable for activity to become severe with large hail and damaging winds. A couple of potentially severe storms traversed the northeast Panhandles near Perryton and Beaver, but the only confirmed instances of severe weather took place with a slow moving cell cluster just east of Amarillo. Here, damaging winds of 65 to 75 mph resulted in some damage. In addition, accumulating hail occurred just to the east of Amarillo.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (34.9800, -101.5000)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1294443. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.