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Strong Wind in Yoakum, Texas

Strong Wind May 23, 2026 · Yoakum, Texas

55 mph
Estimated gust (48 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

LANDSPOUT. Location: 33.231, -102.629. A storm chaser reported a landspout tornado that lasted for three minutes.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms again developed late in the afternoon of the 23rd in two separate locations. Isolated thunderstorms initially developed across the western South Plains into the Permian Basin which produced large hail. Numerous outflow boundaries interacted with each other creating new convection and several landspout tornadoes. A second area of thunderstorms moved into the southern Texas Panhandle from eastern New Mexico. Both areas of thunderstorm activity merged into a single complex of thunderstorms producing severe wind gusts as it moved across the Rolling Plains through the late evening hours.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1330518. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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