High Wind, Roberts
- When
- January 22, 9:02 PM CST to 9:04 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 35.839, -100.813 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Texas, January 22, 2010
A tight surface pressure gradient resulted in strong winds across the northeast Texas Panhandle during the afternoon and evening hours. No damage or injuries were reported.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 AMA wrote it up.
A tight surface pressure gradient resulted in strong winds across the northeast Texas Panhandle during the afternoon and evening hours. No damage or injuries were reported.
The broadcast media reported a measured non-thunderstorm wind gust of fifty-two knots about eleven miles north northwest of Codman.
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 Jan 22, 5:48 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 5:48 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
548 PM CST FRI JAN 22 2010
.AVIATION...
00Z TAFS...BROAD TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN U.S. IS ON TRACK TO QUICKLY
MOVE INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION TONIGHT AND THEN INTO THE CENTRAL
PLAINS SATURDAY. SURFACE LEE SIDE TROUGH OVER EASTERN CO/NM HAS LED
TO GRADIENT WINDS TO INCREASE EARLIER TODAY AND ALTHOUGH WINDS HAVE
STARTED TO DIMINISH A LITTLE...STILL EXPECT GUSTY WINDS THROUGH THE
FORECAST PERIOD. HOWEVER WILL LET THE CURRENT AVIATION WEATHER
WARNING EXPIRE ON TIME AT 6 PM CST AS WINDS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW
CRITICAL THRESHOLDS WITH THE ONSET OF SUNSET. DOPPLER RADAR
REFLECTIVITY IMAGERY SHOWS AN AREA OF SHOWERS APPROACHING THE AREA
FROM THE SOUTHWEST BUT WITH FAIRLY LARGE TEMP/DEWPOINT
DEPRESSIONS...MOST OF THIS PRECIP IS EVAPORATING BEFORE REACHING THE
GROUND. STILL POSSIBLE FOR A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS OR SPRINKLES BUT
THREAT IS LOW ENOUGH TO OMIT FROM TAFS. PACIFIC FRONT WAS OVER
EASTERN NM AND EXPECT A MORE PRONOUNCED WIND SHIFT TO TAKE PLACE
DURING THE AFTERNOON SATURDAY AS WINDS VEER AROUND TO THE W-NW. VFR
CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST PERIOD WITH ONLY MID/HIGH
CLOUDS TO CONTEND WITH.
CLK
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 328 PM CST FRI JAN 22 2010/
DISCUSSION...
A FEW LOCATIONS HAVE REACHED WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON
BUT MAJORITY OF THE AREA HAS NOT SO FAR...MAINLY DUE TO THICK CLOUD
COVER WHICH HAS HAMPERED IDEAL MIXING. WILL LET WIND ADVISORY EXPIRE
AT 6 PM. HAVE RETAINED LOW POPS FOR TONIGHT AS DEEP WRN TROF ZIPS EWD
AND NEWD ACROSS ROCKIES INTO PLAINS STATES AND PACIFIC COLD FRONT
RACES ACROSS SRN HIGH PLAINS.
DRY WX AND COOLER TEMPS IN STORE FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IN POST
FRONTAL AIRMASS. CONTINUATION OF DRY WEATHER SEEN MONDAY THRU WED AS
PROGRESSIVE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES ACROSS THE
AREA.
NEXT UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SLATED TO AFFECT THE PNHDLS WED
NIGHT THRU THURSDAY NIGHT. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS DISAGREE AGAIN TODAY
ON HANDLING THIS SYSTEM WITH GFS COLDER AND ECMWF WARMER. FOR NOW...
MAINTAINED A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH AND KEPT INHERITED LOW POPS FOR
WED NIGHT AND THU PENDING BETTER MODEL AGREEMENT.
ANDRADE
FIRE WEATHER...
ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES THIS WEEKEND. HOWEVER...RED FLAG CONDITIONS
ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. OTHERWISE...NO MAJOR FIRE WEATHER
CONCERNS ARE FORESEEN NEXT MONDAY THRU FRIDAY.
ANDRADE
&&
.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: ARMSTRONG...CARSON...DALLAM...DEAF SMITH...
HANSFORD...HARTLEY...HUTCHINSON...LIPSCOMB...MOORE...
OCHILTREE...OLDHAM...POTTER...RANDALL...SHERMAN.
OK...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: BEAVER...CIMARRON...TEXAS.
&&
05/15Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 22, 6:00 PM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 600 PM CST FRI JAN 22 2010 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-231200- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 600 PM CST FRI JAN 22 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS TONIGHT WILL REQUIRE BOATERS TO EXERCISE CAUTION ON AREA LAKES. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF THE PANHANDLES...GENERALLY FOR LOCATIONS OFF THE CAPROCK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WINDY CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SATURDAY WITH WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH EXPECTED. THESE STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES MAY LEAD TO ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. CLK
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Strong Wind in California, January 22, 2010
- Avalanche in Idaho, January 22, 2010
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, January 22, 2010
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 22 to 25, 2010
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, January 22 to 23, 2010
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, January 22 to 23, 2010
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Montana, January 22 to 25, 2010
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 22 to 25, 2010
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 22 to 25, 2010
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, January 22 to 23, 2010
- High Wind in New Mexico, January 22, 2010
- Wildfire and High Wind in Texas, January 22, 2010
More
Every storm in Texas in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 2010
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: 209192.