Dense Fog, Lamb
- When
- November 10, 6:00 AM CST to 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lamb forecast zone
- Deaths
- 0 direct, 1 indirect
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 34.069, -102.352 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dense Fog in Texas, November 10 to 12, 2009
Fog developed over portions of the South Plains during the morning hours of the 10th, and the fog briefly became dense at a few locations. Low visibilities contributed to a fatal automobile accident near Amherst (Lamb County) around 08:30 CST.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- 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 LUB wrote it up.
Fog developed over portions of the South Plains during the morning hours of the 10th, and the fog briefly became dense at a few locations. Low visibilities contributed to a fatal automobile accident near Amherst (Lamb County) around 08:30 CST. A 42 year-old female was killed when she rear-ended a farm tractor on Texas Farm to Market Road 1055 just north of the city.
A more widespread dense fog event occurred over the extreme southeastern Panhandle and the northern Rolling Plains during the overnight hours of the 11th and early morning hours of the 12th. A teen-aged boy died following an auto accident in Paducah (Cottle County) during the late evening hours of the 11th. Although weather was not a contributing factor toward the cause of the accident, air ambulance operations were prohibited due to low visibilities in fog, and the patient died before he could be transported to one of the region's hospitals.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Dense Fog, Childress
- When
- November 11, 9:00 PM CST to November 12, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Childress forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.529, -100.208 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dense Fog, Cottle
- When
- November 11, 9:00 PM CST to November 12, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Cottle forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.078, -100.279 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dense Fog, Lamb | 2009-11-10 | 42 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
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The same day elsewhere
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 196651, 196652, 196653.