High Wind in Hale, Texas

Rich moisture advected into the region ahead of a dryline positioned across the south-central Texas Panhandle into the southwestern South Plains. Strong heating ahead of the dryline and a weak short wave trough aloft allowed scattered thunderstorms to develop across the central South Plains. A well mixed boundary layer allowed for storms to be high based and produce strong wind gusts. One Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Abernathy (Hale County) recorded severe wind gusts with the outflow well ahead of the parent thunderstorm. Weak flow allowed for storms to have little to no movement which produced heavy rainfall and flash flooding in Hockley County.