Texas, 2001High Wind in Texas, May 20 to 21, 2001
May 20 to 21, 2001 · NWS AMA · 10 events in 10 counties and zones
A strong cold front moving south through the Texas panhandle resulted in some high winds during the late evening and early morning hours.
Every event with a place to put it; 10 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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.
A strong cold front moving south through the Texas panhandle resulted in some high winds during the late evening and early morning hours.
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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 20, 8:15 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 8:15 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
915 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
ISSUED UPDT TO ZONES...ISSUING WND ADZY FOR ALL ZONES BUT SERN SXNS
OF TX PNHDL. 00Z SFC ANALYSIS INDCD VERY TIGHT PRES GRADIENT BHND
CDFNT...WITH 9 MB PER 3 HR PRES RISES OVR NERN CO. TIGHT GRADIENT WL
DVLP/MOV SWD INTO FCST AREA DURG REST OF TNGT. ALSO CALLED FOR AREAL
QUALIFIERS FOR TSTMS TNGT INSTEAD OF UNCERTAINTY TERMS. PLENTY OF
CNVGNC ACMPYG CDFNT AND NOSE OF INCOMING H8 JETSTREAK. NO CHANGES TO
LATER PDS. 03
.AMA...
TX...WND ADZY TONIGHT TX ZNS 01>10..11>13..16>18.
OK...WND ADZY TONIGHT OK ZNS 01>03.
COCKRELL/SLATTERY
High Wind, Oldham
- When
- May 20, 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Oldham forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 35.405, -102.603 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Forty mile per hour sustained wind interpolated at Pampa...Shamrock...Clarendon and Wellington. Forty-one mile per hour sustained wind interpolated at Adrian...Panhandle...Hereford and Claude. Forty-two mile per hour sustained wind measured at Amarillo.
High Wind, Potter
- When
- May 20, 11:12 PM CST
- Where
- Potter forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -101.894 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Randall
- When
- May 20, 11:12 PM CST
- Where
- Randall forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 34.966, -101.897 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Carson
- When
- May 20, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Carson forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 35.404, -101.354 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Gray
- When
- May 20, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Gray forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -100.813 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Wheeler
- When
- May 20, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -100.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Armstrong
- When
- May 20, 11:50 PM CST
- Where
- Armstrong forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 34.965, -101.357 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Deaf Smith
- When
- May 20, 11:50 PM CST
- Where
- Deaf Smith forecast zone
- Measured
- 36 kt (41 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 34.966, -102.605 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Donley
- When
- May 21, 12:00 AM CST
- Where
- Donley forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 34.965, -100.814 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Collingsworth
- When
- May 21, 12:00 AM CST
- Where
- Collingsworth forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 34.965, -100.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
- 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.
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 20, 20011 death · 3 injured · $50,000 · 55 kt wind · 2 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 20 to 21, 2001$2.3 million · F1 · 79 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 20, 200110 injured · $2.6 million · 3.5 in hail · 6 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 20, 2001$176,000 · F2 · 38 events
- High Wind in Colorado, May 20, 20016 injured · $3.4 million · 72 kt wind · 10 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 20, 2001$955,000 · 80 kt wind · 12 events
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 20, 2001$615,000 · F0 · 6 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 20, 2001$193,000 · 1.75 in hail · 22 events
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 20, 20015 injured · $60,000 · 1 event
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 20, 2001$340,000 · 4 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 20, 2001$230,000 · F0 · 5 events
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 20, 2001$100,000 · 1 event
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: 5247546, 5247547, 5247548, 5247549, 5247542, 5247544, 5247650, 5247651, 5247543, 5247545.