High Wind, Tom Green
- When
- March 14, 6:39 AM CST
- Where
- Tom Green forecast zone
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 31.404, -100.462 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
Scattered light showers produced very high winds across parts of the Concho Valley and Heartland. The showers allowed much higher winds just above the ground to reach the surface and produce gusts estimated at 60 to 65 mph.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Scattered light showers produced very high winds across parts of the Concho Valley and Heartland. The showers allowed much higher winds just above the ground to reach the surface and produce gusts estimated at 60 to 65 mph. Several large trees were uprooted in the city of Coleman, while a metal building had its roof ripped off in Runnels County.
What forecasters said that day
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 14, 3:12 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:12 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 312 AM CST WED MAR 14 2001 MODELS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT IN HANDLING THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STREAM SYSTEMS NEXT FEW DAYS. SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE TO MOVE OUT OF NORTHERN MEXICO EAST ACROSS TX TODAY. MAIN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS CONCENTRATED JUST SOUTH OF OUR CWFA...MOVING ENE. LIFT OUT AHEAD OF UPPER SYSTEM GENERATING SCATTERED SHOWERS/FEW ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM SANDERSON TX TO CARLSBAD NM. NOW APPEARS THAT BULK OF RAIN WILL BE SOUTH THROUGH EAST OF OUR CWFA. WILL RANGE POPS FROM HIGH CHANCE/LIKELY SOUTH AND EAST CWFA TO LOWER CHANCE FARTHER NORTHWEST. EXPECT THE RAIN THREAT TO END BY AFTERNOON AS FORCING FOR LIFT AND DEEPER MOISTURE PUSH EAST OF OUR AREA. CLEARING TO OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AS DRYLINE AND MUCH DRIER AIR MOVE WEST TO EAST ACROSS OUR COUNTIES. PRESSURE GRADIENT AND MIXING SUPPORT MARGINALLY BREEZY CONDITIONS TODAY ACROSS BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY. AS NORTHERN STREAM UPPER TROUGH DIGS SOUTHEAST INTO PLAINS...ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS OUR CWFA LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. DECENT COLD ADVECTION WILL BE OFFSET BY FULL SUNSHINE...BUT STILL EXPECT HIGHS TO BE 7-10 DEGREES COOLER THAN TODAY. HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE TO BUILD SOUTH ACROSS PLAINS INTO TX THURSDAY NIGHT. WITH A COLDER AIRMASS... DRY AIR AND STRONG RADIATIONAL COOLING...LOW TEMPERATURES COULD BE AROUND FREEZING. IN THE EXTENDED...UPPER LOW TO DROP INTO FOUR CORNERS REGION BY EARLY SATURDAY. MOISTURE PROGGED TO RETURN AND BE IN PLACE AS THIS UPPER SYSTEM TRACKS SLOWLY EAST ACROSS NORTHERN NM INTO OK/TX PANHANDLES BY SUNDAY EVENING. WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF POSSIBLE SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS FOR LATE SATURDAY. ABI 072/044/060/032 3000 SJT 073/047/062/032 3000 JCT 070/046/066/031 6000 .SJT...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TODAY FOR BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY. 19
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 14, 2:18 AM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-142300- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 218 AM CST WED MAR 14 2001 ...ISOLATED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER THE HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON... A DRYLINE WILL MOVE THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EAST OF THE DRYLINE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON...OVER THE HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. DUE TO LIMITED INSTABILITY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. CLEARING SKIES ARE EXPECTED OVER ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.. THE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK WILL BECOME THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ON MARCH 15TH. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED TWICE DAILY...AT 600 AM AND 230 PM. THIS NEW PRODUCT WILL NOT ONLY INCLUDE INFORMATION ON THUNDERSTORMS...BUT ALSO ON WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ...DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER SITUATIONS...AND ANY OTHER WEATHER EVENTS WHICH MAY BECOME HAZARDOUS TO THE PUBLIC. 14
Special weather statement, Mar 14, 6:03 AM CST, 36 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-141555- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 603 AM CST WED MAR 14 2001 ...THERE IS A CHANCE OF NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF A MERTZON...SAN ANGELO...BROWNWOOD LINE EARLY THIS MORNING. AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES OVER...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END THIS AFTERNOON WITH PASSAGE OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE ONLY WEAKLY UNSTABLE...SO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. STRONG GUSTY WINDS HOWEVER WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING...AS THE SHOWERS BRING STRONG WINDS FROM THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE TO THE SURFACE. SOME WINDS COULD APPROACH 60 MPH IN PORTIONS OF THE CONCHO VALLEY THIS MORNING... MAINLY BEFORE 7 AM. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OK CSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Runnels
- When
- March 14, 7:03 AM CST
- Where
- Runnels forecast zone
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.831, -99.976 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Coleman
- When
- March 14, 8:00 AM CST to 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Coleman forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 31.773, -99.454 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 14, 2001
- Drought in Washington, March 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 14, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in Colorado, March 14, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, March 14 to 15, 2001
- Flooding in Nebraska, March 14 to 16, 2001
- High Wind in New Jersey, March 14, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, March 14, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 14, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2001
Sources
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: 5238832, 5238831, 5238833.