Hail — Scurry, Texas

1999-06-10 · near Snyder, Scurry, Texas

Event narrative

Hail fell from the southern end of a multicell cluster moving east across Scurry County. Numerous cars and roofs were damaged from 24th Street to 44th Street.

Wider weather episode

Widely scattered thunderstorms developed over Pecos, Reeves, Winkler, and Howard Counties in the late afternoon, but by 830 pm CDT all storms were dying rapidly. However, strong to severe storms in the Texas South Plains moved southward into Scurry County by 1030 pm. This multicell cluster became disorganized, but put out an outflow boundary that helped a new cluster to form. This cluster moved east and with localized downbursts that took down some utility poles to the north and southeast of Snyder. After moving east of Snyder the cluster became outflow dominated and the hail threat diminished, whereas the isolated damaging winds continued.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5705606. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.