Severe thunderstorms developed during the late night and afternoon hours over the southern Texas panhandle with reports of damaging winds.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms developed during the late night and afternoon hours over the southern Texas panhandle with reports of damaging winds.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 826 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND TO ADD FOG TO ALL ZONES. MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTHWEST FROM DOWN-STATE. DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S ARE APPROACHING THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. COLD FRONT JUST NOW MOVING EAST OF THE ROCKIES IN NEW MEXICO. SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO TAKE SHAPE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO NEAR KLHX. STILL EXPECTING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO/WESTERN TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATER TONIGHT AS COLD FRONT INTERACTS WITH DEEP MOISTURE. UPPER LOW LOOKS LIKE IT IS NOW MAKING A MORE EASTWARD TRACK...SO STRONGER WINDS ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE TROUGH SHOULD START SPREADING ACROSS WEST TEXAS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. .AMA... TX...HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY TXZ001>020. OK...HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY OKZ001>003. GOEHRING
TXZ011-016-240300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 811 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 TXZ011-016-240300- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED ALL COUNTIES IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 26. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HEREFORD...VEGA... NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. SCHNEIDER/GOEHRING/BILODEAU
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 13 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:38 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Reports of parts of a roof blown off...several street signs blown down...a large tree blown over...a brick fence blown over...a shed blown into a yard...and several car windows blown out.
Reports of a fifth wheel trailer blown over and another small trailer along with fences blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5235365, 5235366, 5235367.