Potter storm history

Around 0500 CST on the 14th, Potter County saw wind chill values drop to -15F to -25F, which lasted until around 0800 CST on the 15th. Winds reached speeds of 15 to 25 mph while temperatures were near of below 0F. The coldest ambient temperature came in at -13F which was recorded…

Storm total snow of 4.3 inches at the NWS office in Amarillo. Public reports of 2.5 inches in Amarillo, 4.0 inches 1 miles WSW of Bushland, 4.0 inches 5 miles north of Amarillo, and 4.0 inches 6 miles W of Amarillo. Also multiple wreck with one known fatality.

The Amarillo (Potter County) Police reported 17 traffic accidents between the hours of 4 to 8 AM CST on city roads with the majority of them on overpasses. At the Ross-Mirror Connector an initial two car accident resulted in multiple other accidents when motorists were unable to …

The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that four to five inches of snow in Potter county resulted in icy conditions which caused the driver of a pickup truck traveling eastbound on Interstate 40 at Farm to Market Road 1912 to lose control of the vehicle around 0745CST. Th…

Strong northerly winds and one to one and a half inches of snow combined to cause treacherous driving conditions and near zero mile visibilities. One woman was killed when her vehicle spun out for about one hundred yards on the icy road in northwest Amarillo on Soncy Road (Loop 3…

Snow...between two and three inches...and blowing snow with winds of thirty-five miles per hour...resulted in a forty-two car accident on Interstate 40 in the eastbound lanes of the sixty-seven hundred block just west of Whitaker Road at 0542 CST. One person was killed and two pe…

A thirty-seven year old man was killed in the morning hours in a vehicle accident which occurred at 0730 CST in the three hundred block of East St. Francis Avenue. The victim was killed when the vehicle he was driving was hit by a pickup truck. Two to three inches of snow along w…

One inch of snow on U.S. Highway 287 near the Canadian River Bridge contributed to icy conditions which led to a one vehicle accident in which a nineteen year old female was killed. The vehicle in which she was driving in rolled over. Three other passengers in the vehicle were in…

Snow and blowing snow contributed to an eighty to one hundred car accident on Interstate 40 east near the intersection of U.S. Highway 287. One sixty-five year old male was killed in his vehicle...twenty-one people were injured and transported to the hospital...and one hundred an…

Four tenths of an inch of ice from freezing rain and freezing drizzle was measured at the National Weather Service Office in Amarillo six miles east of Amarillo.

A teenage boy was playing outside at West Hills Park located at Amarillo Boulevard and Western Street around 1830 CST and was sucked into a tunnel that was part of the park's drainage system. Emergency rescue was called around 1859 CST and the boy's body was recovered at 2030 CST…

Underpasses in the city of Amarillo were flooded and motorists were stranded. One forty-nine year old adult male was killed during a rescue attempt after the motorist attempted to drive through a flooded underpass. Water continued to rise rapidly to a height of approximately four…

A continuous swath of hail ranging from penny size up to golf ball and even hen egg size occurred along a continuous swath over a 50 minute period as a severe storm traveled from the west side of Amarillo across the city to the east side near the Airport. The swath of severe hail…

A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. The supercell entered the city limits of Amarillo during the late night hours of the 28th. This supercell thunderstor…

A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. The supercell entered the city limits of Amarillo during the late night hours of the 28th. This supercell thunderstor…

A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. The supercell entered the city limits of Amarillo during the late night hours of the 28th. This supercell thunderstor…

A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. The supercell entered the city limits of Amarillo during the late night hours of the 28th. This supercell thunderstor…

A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. The supercell entered the city limits of Amarillo during the late night hours of the 28th. This supercell thunderstor…

Thunderstorms formed along a dryline stretching east-northeastward across Randall and Potter Counties during the afternoon hours of the 28th. These thunderstorms would take a northeast track which allowed them to move over the dryline. This caused the thunderstorms to produce iso…

The heavy rains caused water to flow inside of the Highland Park High School cafeteria with ankle to knee deep water inside the elementary wing of the Highland Park school. Raef Road...south of U.S. Highway 60...was reported to be impassable due to the flash flooding with water r…

Reported at the Westgate Mall area of west Amarillo. Many roofs and skylights to homes damaged.

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, windo…

Police blocked off the underpass on I-40 at the Ross Osage exit due to a car stranded and partially submerged in flood waters.

Hail was falling and accumulated with stones up to the size of quarters.

A road northwest of Washburn was flooded with an estimated two to three feet of standing water across it. A truck was stalled in the water and lawns and driveways had water ponded on them.

Nickel size hail fell near the intersection of Highway 136 and Bertrand Road.

One to four inch tree limbs were snapped north of the elementary school.

A 59mph wind gust was measured at the mesonet site located nine miles north-northeast of Amarillo.

Hail up to tennis ball size fell along Highway 287 south of Masterson.

A motorist driving north stopped due to large hail that was estimated to be ping pong ball size.

A supercell thunderstorm moved across Amarillo north of I-40. It produced a swath of hail ranging from half dollar size to golfball size. One injury was noted when a female was moving plants outside and was hit in the head with a hailstone that was around golfball size.

Heavy rain produced an estimated 6 to 12 inches of fast flowing water on couple of residential streets in the northwest part of Amarillo.

The ASOS at the Rick Husband International Airport measured a wind gust of 60mph from non-thunderstorm wind that occurred during the early morning hours of August 3rd.

Heavy rainfall and multiple rounds of rain resulted in flash flooding across the city of Amarillo. There were multiple stalled vehicles in fast moving flood waters, especially across low lying areas in the roads, across Amarillo. Multiple roads were closed due to flash flood cond…

Heavy rain resulted in flooding across northern Amarillo. Two cars were stalled at a low water crossing near Jason Avenue and Oak Drive It appeared that water was roughly about six to eight inches deep at this location. Water also flooded the parking lot of David's Mexican restau…

Both directions of I-40 at Hope Road were closed due to water over the roadway. Traffic was being detoured to the frontage road.

Hail accumulated in a few inches with the hailstones ranging from nickel to quarter size.

Snow accumulated across Potter County with amounts ranging from two inches to 4.8 inches, which was observed at the NWS Amarillo office. Roads became slick early in the event which resulted in several vehicle accidents.

A couple of ground stations measured numerous wind gusts in excess of 58 mph. The peak gust was measured at 68 mph by the ASOS located at the Amarillo airport.