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WORST 10 STORMS OF 2002
HERE ARE WHAT WE BELIEVE TO HAVE BEEN THE TOP 10 SEVERE WEATHER DAYS ACROSS TEXHOMA FOR THE 2002 CHASE SEASON. THESE STORMS ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. THE PICS WERE TAKEN BY MEMBERS OF THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM . ALL PICS HAVE PHOTOGRAPHERS NAME LISTED AS WELL AS WHO CHASED THE STORMS THAT DAY. THESE PHOTOS ARE COPYRIGHTED AND CAN NOT BE REPRODUCED IN PART OR IN WHOLE. YOU CAN ACCESS THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF EACH STORM'S WEBSITE BY CLICKING THE PIC.
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APRIL 7TH MODERATE RISK DAY: THROCKMORTON TORNADO!
ON SUNDAY APRIL 7TH A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR PARTS OF TEXHOMA. THE MODERATE RISK AREA WAS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CROWELL TEXAS TO ARCHER CITY TEXAS TO DECATUR TEXAS. THE REST OF THE AREA WAS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS.
A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WAS FORECAST TO MOVE OUT OF NEW MEXICO AND INTO WEST TEXAS. THIS WOULD FORCE A DRYLINE THROUGH THE MODERATE RISK AREA. A WARM FRON WAS ALSO DRAPPED ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA. MAINLY FROM WICHITA FALLS TO THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX.
AT 1PM A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF HASKELL & THROCKMORTON. THIS WATCH WOULD BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM. STORMS FORMED NEAR ABILIENE AND MOVED INTO HASKELL COUNTY WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ISSUED.
A PDS TORNADO WATCH WAS THEN ISSUED FOR YOUNG JACK WISE & PALO PINTO COUNTIES UNTIL 8PM. SKIES BEGAN TO CLEAR IN THIS AREA AND THE ATMOSPHERE BECAME VERY UNSTABLE.
A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR THROCKMORTON COUNTY AS THE STORMS IN HASKELL COUNTY MOVED IN AND A LARGE WEDGE TORNADO DROPPED1O MILES WEST OF THROCKMORTON BUT ONLY STAYED ON THE GROUND FOR A SHORT TIME. MANY FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AND TORNADO WARNINGS WERE ALSO ISSUED FOR HASKELL YOUNG & JACK COUNTIES.
THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM CAUGHT UP WITH THE STORM THAT PRODUCED THE TORNADO IN OLNEY TEXAS. THE SKY WAS VERY DARK WITH NOTICEABLE ROATION BUT THE STORM WAS WRAPPING ITSELF IN RAIN. WE STAYED AHEAD OF THE STORM AS IT MOVED TOWARD JEAN LOVING AND EVENTUALLY JACKSBORO. WE FILMED AN OMINOUS LOOKING ROLL CLOUD ALONG A GUSTFRONT THAT DID HAVE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 94MPH. THE STORM THEN BEGAN TO WEAKEN AS THEY FORMED INTO A SQUALL LINE AND M0VED OUT OF TEXHOMA.
BESIDES THE STORMS MENTIONED ABOVE OTHER SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS CAME IN FROM OTHER COUNTIES. HASKELL COUNTY HAD QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT ROCHESTER AND ALSO 9 MILES EAST OF HASKELL.
BAYLOR COUNTY HAD QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES NORTH OF BOMARTON.
WICHITA COUNTY HAD NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT ELECTRA.
ARCHER COUNTY HAD QUARTER SIZE HAIL 2 MILES OF ARCHER CITY AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL 2 MILES NORTH OF WINDTHORST.
CLAY COUNTY REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL ACROSS THE COUNTY INCLUDING 10 MILES WEST OF JOY. 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HENRIETTA 60MPH WINDS DOWNED POWERLINES ALONG U.S. 287.
YOUNG COUNTY REPORTED 70MPH WINDS AT OLNEY WHERE ROOFS WERE BLOWN OFF HOUSES AND TREES AND POWERLINES WERE DOWN.
PALO PINTO COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS AT POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE AT THE POSSUM KINGDOM LANDING.
JACK COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS AT VINEYARD WHERE POWERLINES WERE ALSO DOWNED.
WISE MONTAGUE AND JEFFERSON COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA ALSO HAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS.
CHASED BY JASON BROCK & JEFF PAPAK
VIDCAP BY JEFF PAPAK OF JASON BROCK PHOTOGRAPHING ROLL CLOAD NEAR JACKSBORO TEXAS
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APRIL 13TH MODERATE RISK DAY
ON SATURDAY APRIL 13TH A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR A LARGE PORTION OF TEXHOMA. THE MODERATE RISK AREA WAS BASICALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ERICK TO CHICKASHA TO HOLDENVILLE OKLAHOMA. AS ALWAYS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SURROUNDED THE MODERATE RISK AREA.
AT 12AM A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR OUR FAR WESTERN TEXHOMA COUNTIES OF COTTLE CHILDRESS HARMON GREER & BECKHAM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORECAST TO MOVE OUT OF THE TEXAS PANAHANDLE AND INTO WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA. THE TORNADO WATCH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5AM.
SURE ENOUGH THESE STORMS DID MOVE INTO OUR WESTERN COUNTIES AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR A LARGE PORTION OF TEXHOMA UNTIL 10 AM. THE TORNADO WATCH WAS ALSO EXTENDED UNTIL 10AM BUT NOW INCLUDED FOARD AND HARDEMAN COUNTIES.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BEGIN IN HARMON & GREER COUNTIES WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT MANGUM AND 58 MPH WINDS REPOTED AT GOULD. THESE STORMS WOULD THEN PUSH INTO JACKSON & TILLMAN COUNTIES WHERE QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT DUKE AND 65MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED 5MILES NORTHEAST OF MANITOU.
ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WOULD FORM OUT AHEAD OF THESE STORMS IN NORTHERN WICHITA COUNTY. THIS STORM BECAME SUPERCELLULAR AND PRODUCED VERY LARGE HAIL REPORTS FROM BURKBURNETT TO MONTAGUE TEXAS WITH THE LARGEST REPORT COMING IN FROM BURKBURNETT IN WICHITA COUNTY WITH SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL. THIS SAME STORM WOULD ALSO HAVE SIGHNS OF ROTATION BUT NO ORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED. OTHER HAIL REPORTS FROM THIS STORM INCLUDE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANDFIELD WHERE DAMAGE TO CARS AND TREES WAS REPORTED. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF RANDLETT, QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AT PETROLIA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT NOCONA ALONG WITH 60 MPH WINDS AT MONTAGUE IN MONTAGUE COUNTY.
OTHER SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS INCLUDED HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DEVALL AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT TEMPLE IN COTTON COUNTY. NICKEL SIZE HAIL 1 MILE SOUTH OF ODELL IN WILBARGER COUNTY. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT RYAN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT PERRIN IN JACK COUNTY. 65MPH 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF ARCHER CITY AND 60MPH WINDS AT HOLLIDAY IN ARCHER COUNTY WHERE A ROOF WAS REPORTED BLOWN OFF A MOBILE HOME AS WELL AS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN AND FINALLY WISE COUNTY REPORTED 60MPH WINDS AT DECATUR.
THE STORMS FORMED DUE TO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT SPARKED STORMS IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS. THEN MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA.AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THESE STORMS WOULD PRODUCE SEVERES STORMS IN WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO THE NIGHT WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CHILDRESS COTTLE & KING COUNTIES FROM 3PM TILL 9PM. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES WERE ISSUED FOR OUR SOUTHEASTERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES ONE FROM 10AM TILL 1PM AND ANOTHER FROM 12PM TILL 4PM.
VIDCAP BY JASON BROCK OF GUSTFRONT MOVING INTO IOWA PARK TEXAS
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APRIL 16TH DRYLINE STORMS
ON TUESDAY APRIL 16TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR A LARGE PART OF TEXHOMA. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA WAS BASICALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM WEATHORFORD OKLAHOMA TO MUNDAY TEXAS. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT INCLUDED LARGE HAIL DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES.
A DRYLINE WAS FORECAST TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO PARTS OF TEXHOMA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THIS WOULD BE THE FOCUS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT HOWEVER A STRONG CAPPING INVERSION WAS ALSO FORECAST TO POSSIBLY KEEP STORMS FROM FORMING AT ALL. A VORTICITY MAX WAS ALSO FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE DALLAS FORT WORTH AREA AND ALSO HELP FORCE STORMS UP ALONG THE DRYLINE.
THE ATMOSPHERE WAS VERY UNSTABLE WITH AMPLE MOISTURE IN THE AREA AND DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 60S. THIS WOULD BE THE FUEL FOR STORMS IF THEY COULD BREAK THE CAP AND THEY DID.
A STORM POPPED UP IN KNOX COUNTY AND BEGAN TO STRENGTHEN AT ABOUT 3PM. THIS STORM WOULD THEN MOVE INTO BAYLOR COUNTY AND BECOME SEVERE. AT THE SAME TIME OTHER STORMS BEGAN TO FORM AROUND AND JUST WEST OF THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METRO AREA.
THE STORM INBAYLOR COUNTY PRODUCED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF MABELLE AS IT BEGAN TO SLOWLY MOVE TOWARDS THE WICHITA FALLS AREA. THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM CAUGHT UP WITH THE STORM AT ABOUT MANKINS TEXAS WHICH IS JUST EAST OF MABELLE. WE TOOK PICS AND VIDEO OF THIS STORM AS IT BEGAN TO DEVELOP BUT WAS VERY HIGH BASED. A NOTICEABLE HAIL SHAFT WAS NOTED BUT NOT MUCH WIND OR LIGHTNING.
OTHER STORMS BEGAN TO FORM AROUND TEXHOMA IN YOUNG AND JACK COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WOULD ALSO BECOME SEVERE BUT NOT QUITE AS STRONG AS THE BAYLOR COUNTY STORM. WE WOULD FOLLOW THIS STORM INTO NORTHERN ARCHER COUNTY AND WICHITA COUNTY. QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL 6 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DUNDEE IN ARCHER COUNTY.
WICHITA COUNTY WOULD HAVE NUMEROUS LARGE HAIL REPORTS STARTING WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL3 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF KAMAY AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS. THIS STORM WOULD BRIEFLY SHOW SIGHNS OF ROTATION AND THAT’S WHEN THE STORM DROPPED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN WICHITA FALLS AND ALSO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA FALLS.
THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM FOLLOWED IN BEHIND THIS STORM AND WITNESSED NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT THE INTERSECTION OF F.M. 368 AND F.M. 1954 IN HOLIDAY. WE ALSO TOOK PICS OF A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH A BEAUTIFUL DOUBLE RAINBOW AS THE HAIL FELL ON OUR CHASE VEHICLE. A BRIEF SMALL FUNNEL CLOUD WAS ALSO WITNESSED FROM THIS STORM EARLIER NEAR MANKINS BUT IT DISSAPATED RAPIDLY. ANOTHER BRIEF FUNNEL WAS NOTED OVER WICHITA FALLS BUT ALSO DISSAPATED. NO TORNADO WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR ANY PART OF TEXHOMA BUT A TORNADO WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FROM 3PM TILL 11PM BUT WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT ABOUT 9:30.
THE STORM THEN MOVED INTO CLAY COUNTY PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN HENRIETTA AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 14 MILES EAST OF HENRIETTA WHEN THE STORM SUDDENLY DIED OUT. ANOTHER STORMS WOULD FORM JUST AHEAD OF IT AND MOVE INTO JEFFERSON COUNTY OKALHOMA PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF TERRAL.
OTHER STORMS WOULD DROP QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT NEWARK IN WISE COUNTY AND THE STORMS IN THE DFW AREA WENT WILD. ONE TORNADO WAS REPORTED BETWEEN FORT WORTH AND ARLING CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAMGE IN THE COMMUNITY OF HENLEY. TWO OTHER TORNADOES WERE ALSO REPORTED IN THE AREA BUT THE TORNADO NEAR ARLINGTON WAS SAID TO BE UP TO AN F3 IN INTENSITY. THE OTHER TWO TORNADOES WERE F0. ANOTHER TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN SOUTH OF THE METROPLEX BUT WE HAVE HEARD NO REPORT ON ITS SIZE OR IF IT CAUSED ANY DAMAGE.
THE STORMS WOULD WEAKEN AND PUSH OFF TO THE EAST. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR THE NEXT DAY AS THE DRYLINE WAS EXPECTED TO PUSH BACK INTO THE AREA AS IT MOVED BACK TO THE WEST.
CHASED BY JASON BROCK & JEFF PAPAK
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK OF JEFF PAPAK TAKING VIDEO OF ELEVATED SUPERCELL STORM NEAR MANKINS TEXAS
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APRIL 17TH DRYLINE STORMS II
ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 17TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS FORECAST FOR ALL OF TEXHOMA. A DRYLINE WAS FORECAST TO SET UP OVER OUR FAR WESTERN COUNTIES AND BE THE FOCUS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS.
PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WAS IN PLACE AS WELL AS HIGH INSTABILITY DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING. AS THE DRYLINE RETREATED TO THE WEST STORMS BEGAN TO FIRE ALONG IT.
A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FROM 5PM TILL 11PM FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF TEXHOMA. THIS INCLUDED THE LAWTON & WICHITA FALLS AREAS AND POINTS TO THE WEST. SEVERE STORMS SOON BEGAN TO FORM.
SEEVRE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WOULD BE ISSUED AS SUPERCELL STORMS BEAGN TO FORM IN THE WESTERN PART OF TEXHOMA. WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR BECKHAM WASHITA CHILDRESS HARMON HARDEMAN FOARD COTTLE & KING COUNTIES. BECKAHM COUNTY HAD NUMEROUS HAIL REPORTS THAT RANGED FROM HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF ERICK TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 2 MILES OF SAYRE AND ALSO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELK CITY. TWO SUPERCELL STORMS WOULD MOVE INTO THIS AREA AND BOTH PRODUCED TORNADO WARNINGS FOR BECKHAM AND WASHITA COUNTIES. ONLY ONE TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN TEXHOMA HOWEVER AND THAT WAS 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELK CITY. NO DAMAMGE WAS REPORTED AT THE TIME.
OTHER STORMS WOULD PRODUCE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES WES TOF PADUCAH IN COTTLE COUNTY AND ALSO 66 MPH WINDS AT THE CHILDRESS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT IN CHILDRESS COUNTY. THE STORMS WOULD THEN MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FROM 11PM TILL 3AM FOR BECKHAM WASHITA AND CADDO COUNTIES. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAD ENDED IN TEXHOMA BY THIS TIME.
RADAR IMAGE OF SUPERCELL STORMS IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA ON 4/17/02 |
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APRIL 29TH HAIL STORMS & CLASSIC SUPERCELLS
ON MONDAY APRIL 29TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN TEXHOMA. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA WAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM THROCKMORTON TEXAS TO SEYMOUR TEXAS TO BURKBURNETT TEXAS TO RANDLETT OKLAHOMA TO PAULS VALLEY OKLAHOMA. STRONG TO SEVERE STOTRMS WOULD BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS AREA FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
A VERY STRONG WARM SEMI-STATIONARY WARM FRONT WAS DRAPPED ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES AND THIS FRONT INTERSECTED A DRYLINE NEAR THE ABILIENE AREA. THIS ALONG WITH ADEQUATE DAY TIME HEATING AND A WEAK DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NEW MEXICO WOULD BE ENOUGH TO BREAK A STRONG CAPPING INVERSION THAT WAS IN PLACE.
AT 5PM STORMS BEGAN TO FIRE JUST SOUTHEAST OF ABILIENE TEXAS. THESE STORMS WOULD RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FROM 5PM TILL 10 PM FOR THROCKMORTON YOUNG JACK WISE MONTAGUE & PALO PINTO COUNTIES IN TEXHOMA.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALSO SOON DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN PALO PINTO COUNTY. THIS STORM TOOK ON CLASSIC SUPERCELLULAR STRUCTURE AND PRODUCED 60 MPH WINDS AT MINERAL WELLS TEXAS. THIS STORM WOULD MOVE INTO WISE COUNTY AND PRODUCE BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF BRIDGEPORT AND SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL AT DECATUR.
ANOTHER SUPERCELL BEGAN TO STRENGTHEN AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR YOUNG JACK & MONTAGUE COUNTIES FOR A STORM THAT WOULD PRODUCE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT JERMYN AND 60MPH WINDS AT GRAHAM ALONG WITH GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED 5 MILES WEST OF GRAHAM. THIS STORM WOULD DIE NEAR THE BOWIE AREA IN MONTAGUE COUNTY RAPIDLY.
A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR CLAY ARCHER AND THE PREVIOUS COUNTIES UNTIL MOIDNIGHT BUT YET ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED UNTIL 5AM FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN TEXHOMA. NEW STORMS BEAGN TO FORM IN NORTHER YOUNG & THROCKMORTON COUNTIES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING S HAD TO BE ISSUED FOR ARCHER CLAY YOUNG HASKELL & BAYLOR COUNTIES. THESE STORMS PRODUCED HALF-DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AT NEWPORT IN CLAY COUNTY AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERT IN THROCKMORTON COUNTY. HASKELL COUNTY WOULD ALSO REPORT QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT STIGLER. THESE STORMS WOULD WEAKEN AND MOVE TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 1AM.
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK
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MAY 5TH MODERATE RISK DAY
ON SUNDAY MAY 5TH A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR ALL OF TEXHOMA. THE MODERATE RISK AREA WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM GAGE OKLAHOM TO OKLAHOMA CITY YO LAKE TEXHOMA. EAST OF THIS LINE THERE WAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS.
STORMS WERE EXPECTED TO FORM IN THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE ALONG A DRYLINE THAT STRETCHED FROM BOISE CITY OKLAHOME TO ROSWELL NEW MEXICO. A WEAK WARM FRONT WAS ALSO DRAPPED JUST SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER AND A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS ALSO DRAPPED ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS. A WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WAS ALSO DRAPPED ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA DUE TO SUPERCELL STORMS THAT FORMED THE NIGHT BEFORE JUST SOUTH OF TEXHOMA ALONG THE WARM FRONT.
ALL OF THESE FACTORS ALONG WITH A WEAK CAP IN PLACE WOULD SET THE STAGE FOR A PRETTY GOOD ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. STRONG TORNADOES WERE POSSIBLE AND STORMS WERE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THE WEAK WARM FRONT NEAR THE RED RIVER BUT NO STORMS FORMED AS THE FRONT DIED OUT.
AT 5PM A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AS WELL AS FOR CHILDRESS COUNTY IN TEXHOMA. VERY STRONG STORMS BEGAN TO FORM ALONG THE DRYLINE FROM THE NORTHERN MOST TEXAS PANHANDLE TO WESTOF AMARILLO TO NEAR LUBBOCK TEXAS TO MIDLAND TEXAS. TORNADO WATCHES REACHED FROM THE RIO GRNADE RIVER ALL THE WAY TO ALMOST THE CANADIAN BORDER.
NUMEROUS TORNADOES WERE REPORTED ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH MOST OF THE REPORTS COMING FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. A LARGE TORNADO TORE THROUGH THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE TOWN OF HAPPY TEXAS KILLING AS MANY AS FOUR. THIS SAME STORM WOULD MOVE INTO THE FAR WESTERN SECTIONS OF TEXHOMA. NEAR MEMPHIS THIS STORM PRODUCED ANOTHER TORNADO AFTER DARK AND TORNADO WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR THE STORM IN CHILDRESS HARMON & GREER COUNTIES IN TEXHOMA. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OVER 100 MPH WERE REPORTED NEAR MEMPHIS. THIS STORM WOULD ALSO DROP GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 20 MILES NORTH OF CHILDRESS. A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR OUR WESTERN OKLHAOM COUNTIES UNTIL 11PM AND WOULD BE EXTENDED UNTIL 3AM FOR COUNTIES IN OKLAHOMA A BIT FURTHER WEST. THIS WATCH WOULD BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE HOWEVER AT MIDNIGHT AS THE STORMS WEAKENED. THE STORMS WOULD BE SEVERE HOWEVER IN BECKHAM KIOWA WASHITA GRADY CADDO & JACKSON COUNTIES.
QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT GRANITE IN GREER COUNTY AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOBART. 6O MPH WINDS ALSO OCCURRED EAST OF COWDEN IN WASHITA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WOULD PUSH TOWARDS THE OKC METRO AREA PRODUCING MARGINAL SEVERE WEATHER.
GRAPHIC OF SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES ACCROSS THE PLAINS ON 5/5/02
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MAY 17TH NORTHERN TEXHOMA WIND STORMS
ON THURSDAY MAY 17TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR A LARGE POTION OF TEXHOMA. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA WAS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM JACKSBORO TEXAS TO CHILDRESS TEXAS. LATER IN THE EVENING A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WOULD BE FORECAST FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHERN TEXHOMA MAINLY FOR BECKHAM AND WASHITA COUNTIES.
A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO TEXHOMA DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. A DRYLINE WAS ALSO SET UP IN WESTERN PARTS OF TEXHOMA MAINLY FROM LINE FROM ELK CITY TO ALTUS OKLAHOMA TO MUNDAY TEXAS. THE FRONT WOULD BE A FOCUS FOR SEVERE STORMS TO FORM IN THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES AND THESE STORMS WOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO TEXHOMA.
WHAT WAS NOT FORECAST HOWEVER WAS A WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS TEXHOMA THAT STRETCHED FROM ADA OKLAHOMA TO WICHITA FALLS TO THROCKMORTON TEXAS. THIS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAD A HARD TIME BREAKING A STRONG CAP THAT HAD WEAKEND DURING THE DAY BUT STRONG STORMS FIRED FROM GRAHAM TEXAS TO ADA OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS WOULD DROP DIME SIZE HAIL AS WELL AS 55 MPH WINDS BUT ONE STORM DID GO SEVERE OVER WISE COUNTY. THIS STORM WOULD PRODUCE 60 MPH WINDS 7 MILES WEST OF DECATUR AS WELL AS 80 MPH WINDS IN DECATUR ITSELF. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED BEFORE THESE STORMS DIED OUT AND MOVED EAST.
STORMS THAT HAD FIRED AS FORECAST IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE WERE ALSO SEVERE AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS IN EFFECT IN THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANAHANDLES INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THESE STORMS ROLLED INTO NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR BECKHAM WASHITA CADDO GRADY KIOWA & GREER COUNTIES.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR BECKHAM COUNTY AS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORMS BEGAN TO FORM A BOW ECHO AND WINDS TO 100 MPH OR HIGHER WERE REPORTED NORTH OF CADDO COUNTY. CADDO COUNTY WOULD HAVE NICKEL SIZE HAIL 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COGAR AND 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED 8 MILES WEST OF MINCO AND WINDS TO 75 MPH WERE REPORTED IN CHICKASHA IN GRADY COUNTY. JEFFERSON COUNTY WOULD HAVE WINDS TO 60 MPH NEAR PARK. WASHITA AND STEPEHENS COUNTIES WOULD ALSO HAVE WARNINGS FOR WINDS TO 60 MPH AND HAIL TO NICKEL SIZE. THE STORMS WOULD WEAKEN AS THE FRONT PASSED THROUGH THE AREA BUT THE FRONT WOULD HAVE SOME GUSTY WINDS TO 55 MPH. THE STORMS ENDED ABOUT 4AM WHEN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EXPIRED. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED UNTIL 7AM FOR STEPHENS JEFFERSON COMANCHE COTTON TILMAN WICHITA MONTAGUE JACK WISE PALO PINTO & CLAY COUNTIES BUT SEVERE WEATHER HAD PRETTY MUCH ENDED.
RADAR IMAGE OF SEVERE STORMS IN NORTHERN TEXHOAMON 5/17/02
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MAY 24TH MODERATE RISK DAY
ON FRIDAY MAY 24TH A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR ALL OF TEXHOMA. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SURROUNDED THE MODERATE RISK AREA. STORMS WERE EXPECTED TO FIRE AT A TRIPLE POINT INTERSECTION OF A DRYLINE STRETCHED ACROSS FAR WESTERN TEXHOMA AS WELL AS A COLD FRONT ACCROSS NORTHERN TEXHOMA AND AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ALONG THE RED RIVER.. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS ALSO LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF CHILDRESS. THE TRIPLE POINT WOULD SLOWLYMOVE NORTH TOWARDS THE HOBART AREA.
AT 3PM A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED UNTIL 9PM FOR MOST OF TEXHOMA EXCEPT THE FAR SOUTHEAST. THE T.A.S.C. CHASE TEAM WAS READY FOR DEPLOYMENT AND WE LEFT THE WICHITA FALLS AREA AT 3PM. AS WE HEADED TOWARDS CHILDRESS TEXAS THE FIRST STORM FORMED JUST WEST OF CHILDRESS AND QUICKLY BECAME SEVERE PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 60MPH. OTHERE STORMS BEGAN TO FIRE TO THE SOUTH OF THIS STORM INTO COTTLE & KING COUNTIES. THE STORM MOVED TOWARDS THE HOLLIS OKLAHOMA AREA AND WE TURNED NORTH OUT OF QUANAH TO INTERCEPT THE STORM.
AS WE DID THE OTHER STORMS TO THE SOUTH BECAME SEVERE AS WELL BUT THE STORM TOWARDS HOLLIS SHOWED THE BEST ROTATION SO WE MET UP WITH THIS STORM JUST SOUTH OF GOULD. WE FOLLOWED THE STORM EAST TOWARDS DUKE AND THEN WENT NORTH TOWARDS MANGUM. WE WITNESSED SEVERAL WALL CLOUDS AND A FEW FUNNELS ALONG THE WAY BUT THE STORM SEEMED TO GET STRONGER NEAR REED OKLAHOMA THEN TURNED A BIT TO THE SOUTHEAST AND BACKBUILT A BIT. AS WE WATCHED THE STORM JUST NORTH OF DUKE LIGHTNING BEGAN TO INTENSIFY AND A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WAS NOTED JUST NEAR REED. THIS BECAME RAIN WRAPPED AND THEN A SECOND WALL CLOUD TO THE SOUTH SHOWED SIGHNS OF ROTATION. LIGHTNING WAS VERY CLOSE AT THIS POINT AND ONE BOLT STRUCK A TELEPHONE POLL JUST BEHIND THE CHASE VEHICLE AS WE TOOK VIDEO. THIS STORM WOULD ALSO BEGAN TO DROP HEAVY RAIN AND HIGH WINDS TO 60 MPH ON US SO WE WENT BACK TO THE SOUTH TOWARDS DUKE THEN EAST TOWARDS ALTUS FOLLOWING THE STORM ALONG THE WAY. THE STORM CONTINUED TO SHOW SIGHNS OF ROTATION UNTIL IT GOT JUST NORTH OF ALTUS AND BEGAN TO WEAKEN.
IN THE MEANTIME OTHER STORMS TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH BECAME SEVERE. ONE STORM IN HASKELL COUNTY TEXAS HAD A TORNADO WARNING BUT NO TORNADO WAS SITED. ANOTHER STORM MOVED OVER THE LAKE KEMP TEXAS AREA AND NEAR SEYMOUR PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. STORM AFTER STORM FIRED UP BEHIND THESE STORMS AND WE HEADED SOUTH BACK TOWARDS VERNON TO NTERCEPT A STORM COMING OUT OF FOARD AND HARDEMAN COUNTIES THAT WAS SHOWING ROOD ROTATION ON RADAR.
WE CAUGHT UP WITHTHSIS TORM IN VERNON AND SAT JUST EAST OF TOWN WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PUSH IN. THE STORM TURNED TO THE SOUTHEAST AND AS WE WATCHED IN AMAZEMENT A LARGE MULTIPLE VORTICES TORNADO FORMED JUST SOUTHWEST OF TOWN. WE TOOK VIDEO AND WATCHED AS THE TWISTER STARTED TO FROM A LARGE WEDGE BUT THEN SUDDENLY GUSTED OUT AND BECAME RAIN WRAPPED. MOST OF THE STORMS ON THIS DAY WERE HIGH PRECIPITATION SUPERCELLS. SO THE STORMS WOULD WRAP UP IN RAIN THEN RECYCLE THEMSELVES.
THE VERNON STORM WOULD GUST OUT PRODUCING WINDS AS HIGH AS 90 MPH AND ALMOST BLEW KSWO TV-7 DOORS OFF OF THEIR CHASE VEHICLE. NEAR ALTUS WE HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE WITH 70 MPH WINDS BUT WE KEPT THE DOORS SHUT. THE VERNON STORM WOULD DIE OUT BUT NEW STORMS WOULD FORM TO THE WEST IN FOARD AND HARDEMAN COUNTIES YET AGAIN. THESE STORMS WOULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND GIVE RISE TO NEW STORMS LATER IN THE EVENING NEAR THROCKMORTON AND HASKELL THAT PRODUCED TORNADO WARNINGS AROUND 2AM AND ASLO FLASH FLOODING WITH AS MUCH AS 9 INCHES REPORTED. THE TORNADO WARNING HAD BEEN EXTENDED AT THIS POINT UNTIL MIDNIGHHT FOR PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AREAS BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WOULD NOT END UNTIL ABOUT 4AM.
SOME SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS THAT CAME IN INCLUDED IN CHILDRESS COUNTY QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT CHILDRESS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHILDRESS. IN HARMON COUNTY NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLLIS AND 9 MILES EAST OF HOLLIS AS WELL AS QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT GOULD AND HOLLIS. GREER COUNTY REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL 11 MILES WEST OF WILLOW AND 3 MILES WEST OF REED.HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANGUM. IN COTTLE COUNTY QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 17 MILES NORTH OF PADUCAH AND 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ALSO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH. BECKHAM COUNTY HAD NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT SAYRE AND QUARTER SIZE AHIL 4 MILES WEST OF ELK CITY. KING COUNTY HAD GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 10 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE AND NICKEL SIZE HAILIN GUTHRIE. HARDEMAN COUNTY WOULD HAVE MANY REPORTS INCLUDING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT QUANAH AND 4 MILES WEST OF CHILICOTHE. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 4 MILES NORTH OF QUANAH AND AT GOODLETT. NICKELS WAS ALSO REPORTED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOCKETT ALONG WITH 60 MPH WINDS 4 MILES WEST CHILICOTHE. WASHITA COUNTY HAD NICKEL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANUTE AND AT BURNS FLAT AND 3 MILES SOUTH OF FOSS. 62 MPH WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED AT BURNS FLAT. KNOX COUNTY HAD BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF BENJAMIN AND QUARTER SIZE AHIL AT GILLILAND. FOARD COUNTY HAD NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT THALIA AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROWELL. JACKSON COUNTY HAD NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT MARTHA AND 7 MILES WEST OF ELDORADO. QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED AT OLUSTEE. HASKELL COUNTY WOULD HAVE NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT HASKELL AND FINALLY STEPHENS COUNTY WOULD HAVE 58 MPH WINDS AT THE DUNCAN HOLLIBURTON AIR FIELD FROM STORMS THAT WERE DECAYING LATER IN THE EVENING. OTHER COUNTIES THAT HAD WARNINGS INCLUDED WILBARGER BAYLOR & THROCKMORTON.
VIDCAP BY JASON BROCK
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JUNE 15TH DERECHO
ON SATURDAY JUNE 15TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR MOST OF TEXHOMA. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND MOVE RADIDLY TO THE SOUTHEAST DURING THE EVENING. THIS WOULD SPARK A LARGE COMPLEX OF SEVERE STORMS TO ROLL DIRECTLY OVER TEXHOMA. AT 5PM A LARGE PART OF THE SLIGHT RISK AREA WAS UPGRADED TO A MODERATE RISK MAINY EAST OF A LINE FROM BUFFALOE OKLAHOMA TO SEYMOUR TEXAS. THE REST OF THE AREA WAS IN A SLIGHT RISK.
AT 4PM A PDS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED FOR BECKHAM & WASHITA COUNTIES UNTIL 10PM. HAIL TO GOLFBALLS AND WINDS TO 80 MPH WERE EXPECTED. AT ABOUT 7PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED TO THE SOUTH OF THIS WATCH TO INCLUDE MOST OF TEXHOMA UNTIL 1AM SUNDAY MORNING.
THERE WERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY COUNTY IN TEXHOMA AT SOMEPOINT DURING THE EVENING. WHILE HAIL WAS NOT TOO BIG OF A PROBLEM A FEW LARGE HAIL REPORTS DID COME IN.
COTTLE COUNTY REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT CEE VEE AND HAIL TO PENNY SIZE WAS WIDE SPREAD. WHAT PROVED TO BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS BESIDES HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS THE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS THAT REACHED AS HIGH AS 100 MPH IN SOME AREAS. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED ALL ACROSS TEXHOMA. ONE OF THE LARGEST AREAS OF WIND DAMAGE I HAVE SEEN. WHILE I HAVE SEEN WORSE WIND DAMAGE I HAVE NEVER SEEN IT THIS SPREAD OUT. DAMAGE WAS REPORTED FROM SOUTHEAST COLORADO TO HOUSTON TEXAS.
IN THE LOCAL AREA 58 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED 4 MILES SOUTH OF TIPTON IN TILLMAN COUNTY.BECKHAM COUNTY HAD WINDS TO 60 MPH AT SWEETWATER. 6O MPH AT HYDRO IN CADDO COUNTY. BECKHAM COUNTY ALSO HAD 70 MPH WINDS SAYRE. WASHITA COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 6 MILES NORTH OF COLONY. CADDO COUNTY ALSO HAD 65 MPH WINDS 7 MILES WEST OF HINTON. 80 MPH WINDS CAME IN 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONE WOLF IN KIOWA COUNTY. WASHITA COUNTY ALSO HAD 69 MPH WINDS 2 MILES SOUTH OF RETROP. BECKHAM ALSO HAD 60 MPH WINDS AT RETROP. CADDO COUNTY HAD 64 MPH WINDS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF COBB. HARMON HAD 75 MPH WINDS 4 MILES WEST OF HOLLIS. GREER COUNTY HAD 69 MPH WINDS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANGUM. 62 MPH WINDS OCCURRED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOBART IN KIOWA COUNTY. 60 MPH WINDS 4 MILES SOUTN OF ANADARKO OCCURRED IN CADDO AS WELL.
THE HIGHEST ACTUAL MEASURED WIND GUST OCCURRED IN CHILDRESS COUNTY AT THE CHILDRESS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT OF 97 MPH. 60 MPH WINDS OCCURRED AT MINCO IN GRADY COUNTY 60 MPH ALSO OCCURRED 2 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAIN PARK. LAWTON HAD 60 MPH WINDS IN COMANCHE COUNTY. ALTUS HAD 70 MPH WINDS IN JACKSON COUNTY. 72 MPH WINDS OCCURRED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSH SPRINGS IN GRADY COUNTY. 70 MPH OCCURRED AT ANADARKO IN CADDO. 58 MPH OCCURRED 4 MILES SOUTH OF TIPTON IN TILLMAN COUNTY. COTTLE COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 10 MILES EAST OF PADUCAH. FOARD COUNTY HAD 75 MPH WINDS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROWELL HARDEMAN COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 3 MILES NORTH OF CHILICOTHE. COTTLE ALSO HAD 70 MPH WINDS AT PADUCAH.WILBARGER REPORTED WINDS TO 70 MPH AT OKLAUNION. 84 MPH WINDS HIT TILLMAN COUNTY 3 MILES WEST OF GRANDFIELD. BURKBURNETT HAD 92 MPH WINDS IN WICHITA COUNTY. COTON COUNTY HAD 68 MPH WINDS 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF WALTERS. COTTLE ALSO HAD 60 MPH WINDS AT CEE VEE . 60 MPH WINDS ALSO OCCURRED AT GRANDFIELD. COMANCHE HAD 60 MPH WINDS IN STEPHENS COUNTY. GUTHRIE HAD 60 MPH WINDS IN KING COUNTY. WICHITA FALLS HAD WINDS TO 83 MPH IN WICHITA COUNTY. STEPHENS COUNTY ASLO HAD 65 MPH WINDS AT WAURIKA. 90 MPH WINDS OCCURRED IN KNOX COUNTY AT MUNDAY. 75 MPH WINDS OCCURRED AT HOLLIDAY IN ARCHER COUNTY. 60 MPH WINDS ALSO OCCURRED 13 MILES SOUTH OF VERNON. 70 MPH 7 MILES NORTH OF HASKELL 60 MPH WAURIKA 90 MPH ARCHER CITY 70 MPH THROCKMORTON 60 MPH OLNEY 65 MPH HENRIETTA 60 MPH JACKSBORO 60 MPH NEWCASTLE 60 MPH ELBERT 60 MPH RINGOLD 70 MPH AT KNOX CITY 74 MPH MINERAL WELLS AND FINALLY 60 MPH AT GRAHAM. Strong storm blasts through area
Winds of 70 mph rode in on thunderstorms Saturday night, blasting over power lines, telephone wires, trees and a mobile home in the Wichita Falls area, officials said.
The mobile home in City View was not occupied, officials said. But power lines trapped at least one motorist about 10:20 p.m. in the 1700 block of Pearlie drive near Sheppard Air Force Base.
At 10:40 p.m., people were reported trapped inside an automobile in a ditch with water rising around it on U.S. 287.
In addition, an automobile was trapped under power lines under the overpass at Interstate 44 and Old Iowa Park Road.
Police and firefighters scrambled to answer a barrage of calls that began about 10:15 p.m. Transformer fires and wires down were the most common calls.
Sirens went off in the city at 10:15 p.m. to alert residents to sustained, straight-line winds of more than 55 mph.
But severe weather spotters had not reported any rotation by 11 p.m. The worst of the severe weather had subsided by then.
Besides Wichita Falls, power outages were reported in Iowa Park and the Cashion Community.
Severe thunderstorms blustered through much of North Texas Saturday night, blasting straight winds of more than 90 mph in some areas and possibly dropping tennis ball-sized hail, officials said.
At 9:30 p.m., the storms were most intense in the North Texas counties of Hardeman, Childress, Wilbarger and Knox, Ken Gallant, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said.
Heavy rain and severe winds swept through Hardeman, a Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said. Big trees to the west of Quanah, Texas, were down, but no other reports of weather damage had been received by 9:30 p.m.
The thunderstorms blew in from Lawton, Okla., puffing southeast at 45 mph to 50 mph.
Thousands powerless, jets grounded
Saturday night's wind storm has left more than tree limbs and broken glass in its wake. Thousands of families and businesses in the Wichita Falls area were without power Monday morning.
There were no injuries reported in connection with the storm, even with sustained winds clocked at 70 mph or great. There were windgusts reported at 82 mph in Wichita Falls, 92 mph in Burkburnett, according to the National Weather Service.
The storm's damage was not limited to north Texas, however, damage was scattered in a wide path from the Amarillo area in the Texas panhandle, throughout north- and southwest Oklahoma and down into north Texas to just north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Officials at Oncor, a division of TXU, said Monday 13,500 customers were still in the dark, so to speak, for a second straight day.
Crews from the metroplex, Oklahoma and west Texas have been called in to assist.
There were also reports that Sheppard Air Force Base had suspended some training flights due to damage from the storm.
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK
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AUGUST 27TH AM DERECHO
ON TUESDAY AUGUST 27TH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WAS FORECAST FOR THAT PART OF TEXHOMA MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ALTUS TO OKLAHOMA CITY. A COMPLEX OF STORMS WAS FORECAST TO ROLL ACROSS TEXHOMA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND IT DID. AT 10PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED TILL 4AM FOR OUR NORTHERN TEXHOMA COUNTIES FOR STORMS ROLLING OUT OF NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS. THESE STORMS WOULD FORM A DERECHO OR A COMPLEX LINE OF STORMS WITH HIGH WINDS.
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ISSUED UNTIL 6AM FOR OUR COUNTIES NORTH OF THE RED RIVER AND YET ANOTHER WATCH WOULD BE ISSUED UNTIL 9AM FOR COUNTIES SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER. SEVERE WINDS WOULD TEAR ACROSS TEXHOMA PRODUCING THE FOLLOWING REPORTS.
WASHITA COUNTY HAD 60 MPH WINDS 4 MILES WNW OF BESSIE. 58 MPH WINDS 2 MILES SOUTH OF RETROP. CADDO COUNTY HAD 63 MPH WINDS 7 MILES WEST OF HINTON. 63 MPH WINDS4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOBART IN KIOWA COUNTY. 66 MPH WINDS IN GRADY COUNTY 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHICKASHA. 76 MPH WINDSAT FREDERICK IN TILLMAN COUNTY. 66 MPH WINDS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAWTON. 67 MPH WINDS AT DUNCAN IN STEPHENS COUNTY. 74 MPH AT BURKBURNETT IN WICHITA COUNTY. 61 MPH AT 1 MILES NORTH OF HENRIETTA. 65 MPH AT WICHITA FALLS. 60 MPH AT NOCONNA IN MONTAGUE COUNTY. 60 MPH 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSBORO IN JACK COUNTY. 63 MPH AT 1 MILE NORTH RINGLING & 60 MPH AT CHICO IN WISE COUNTY.
THE STORMS WOULD MOVE INTO THE DFW AREA DN FINALLY ALL THE WAY TO THE GULF OF MEXICO WITH SEVERE WEATHER ALL ALONG THE WAY.
PHOTO BY JASON BROCK
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