Hail — Potter, Texas

1999-05-25 · near Amarillo, Potter, Texas

Event narrative

Large hail damaged a total of eight hundred and fifty automobiles at Gene Messer Ford in southwest Amarillo and Westgate Chevrolet on the west side of Amarillo causing a total of two and a half million dollars. The rest of the damage was to other people's cars, roof damage, windows of homes and sky lights.

Wider weather episode

A cold front moving slowly south across the southern Texas panhandle and a vigorous low pressure system in the upper atmosphere over the southwestern states helped to trigger a damaging hail outbreak across mainly the southern half of the Texas panhandle. The severe thunderstorms also produced high winds, flooding rainfall, and a few tornadoes along with the damaging large hail.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5698483. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.