Thunderstorm Wind in Hockley County, Texas

A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Levelland measured a severe gust of 65 mph.

Very hot temperatures and convergence within a surface trough allowed scattered thunderstorms to develop late in the afternoon on the 25th. The hot temperatures allowed storms to be high based producing mostly severe wind gusts. One of the more robust updrafts produced quarter size hail in the city of Lubbock. The most impressive storm of the evening was one that tracked near Slaton (Lubbock County). This storm generated a microburst with a peak wind gust of 110 mph measured by the Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet. A storm survey the next day revealed very localized damage around the mesonet site northeast of Slaton. Cotton crops were destroyed and mesquite trees were stripped. Additionally, irrigation pivots were damaged and partially rolled. A heavy gate damaged the fence surrounding the mesonet site but no damage to the sensors occurred. Later in the evening, a line of thunderstorms developed on an outflow boundary moving into the northwestern South Plains. These thunderstorms continued to produce intermittent severe wind gusts as they tracked across the northern South Plains into the extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle.