Texas, 2022High Wind in Texas, October 24, 2022
October 24, 2022 · NWS MAF · 3 events in 3 counties and zones
A deep, Central Rocky Mountains trough and accompanying Pacific front brought westerly high winds to the Guadalupe, Delaware, and Davis Mountains.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
A deep, Central Rocky Mountains trough and accompanying Pacific front brought westerly high winds to the Guadalupe, Delaware, and Davis Mountains.
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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 23, 11:41 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 11:41 PM CST, 57 minutes before
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Local storm report, Oct 23, 9:39 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>High Wind, Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet
- When
- October 24, 12:38 AM CST to 3:38 PM CST
- Where
- Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet forecast zone
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- RAWS
- Coordinates
- 31.447, -104.517 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains
- When
- October 24, 10:36 AM CST to 4:51 PM CST
- Where
- Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 31.447, -104.517 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Davis Mountains
- When
- October 24, 2:30 PM CST to 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Davis Mountains forecast zone
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Unknown
- Coordinates
- 30.176, -103.877 (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.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 24, 2022$607,000 · EF1 · 11 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 24, 20221 injured · $81,000 · 1.75 in hail · 18 events
- Damaging Winds in Texas, October 24 to 25, 2022$30,000 · 53 kt wind · 19 events
- Tornado in Oregon, October 24, 2022$25,000 · EF0 · 1 event
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, October 24 to 25, 2022$15,000 · EF0 · 5 events
- Damaging Winds in Texas, October 24, 202261 kt wind · 9 events
- High Wind in Wyoming, October 24 to 25, 202261 kt wind · 5 events
- High Wind and Strong Wind in California, October 24, 2022$2,000 · 56 kt wind · 4 events
- High Wind in South Dakota, October 24, 202253 kt wind · 3 events
- High Wind in Montana, October 24, 202255 kt wind · 3 events
- Heavy Snow in North Dakota, October 24, 20222 events
- Frost and Freeze in California, October 24, 20222 events
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: 1061188, 1061189, 1061190.