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A picture posted to social media showed two power poles snapped by straight line winds south of Kirkland.
The Childress County EM reported 16 power poles that were toppled by a bow echo thunderstorm. Time was estimated from radar.
A few power lines were damaged on the west side of Childress. A nearby Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station measured a gust to 57 mph at 0155 CST.
Large power poles were reported down on U.S. Highway 62 about 12 miles north of Childress.
Local law enforcement officials reported that thunderstorm winds damaged utility poles and lines just southeast of Childress shortly after 17:30 CST. The damages resulted in widespread power outages between Childress and Kirkland.
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A lightning strike at the Childress ASOS caused an estimated $4500 in combined damage and service costs to fully repair a power transformer.
Following a small wave of severe thunderstorms in Kent and Stonewall Counties late this afternoon along a weak cold front and dryline, a second round of severe thunderstorms rolled southeast from the western Texas Panhandle late in the evening. This latter round of storms featured an impressive, but compact bow echo that struck northern Childress County shortly before midnight CST. This bow echo toppled 16 power poles along Highway 62 east of Highway 83.
In advance of an upper low in the Desert Southwest, a very rich feed of subtropical and Gulf moisture overspread much of west and northwest Texas by the afternoon of the 20th resulting in a widespread rain event. In Childress County and into parts of the Rolling Plains, marginally freezing temperatures following a weak cold front from earlier in the day resulted in several hours of light to moderate freezing rain. Roughly 16 hours of freezing rain fell in Childress from the afternoon of the 20th before ending late in the morning on the 21st. Although ground temperatures remained above freezing through the event, exposed objects such as trees, power lines and fences in Childress County ended up with 0.1 to nearly 0.3 inches of ice. The ice buildup on power lines resulted in over 700 residents in Childress losing power, but fortunately area roads remained warm enough through the event and Christmas travel was not seriously impacted. ||Light freezing rain was also observed farther south in Cottle and Dickens counties, and the wintry precipitation was able to form a light accumulation on trees, power lines, and vehicles. Near the end of the event, precipitation fell as snow across the extreme south-central Texas Panhandle. A cooperative weather observer reported 2.0 inches of snow in Dimmitt (Castro County) and law enforcement reported 3.0 inches in Happy (Swisher County). One motorist fatality was reported due to slick roads on Interstate 27 near Tulia.
During the early evening hours of the ninth, a supercell thunderstorm developed in the southeastern Texas panhandle and made a right turn into northeastern Childress County. This thunderstorm produced wind damage to power poles as it moved through Childress County. Elsewhere across the South Plains and Rolling Plains, scattered thunderstorms developed although none of these storms resulted in any reported severe winds or hail.
An arctic front swept southward across the west Texas region during the evening hours of the 6th. The frontal passage was accompanied by northerly winds sustained above 30 mph with a few gusts near 50 mph. The winds damaged transmission lines south of Childress, and resulted in a short-lived power outage.
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Childress, Texas
| City | Childress |
| County | Childress |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| Country | United States |
| Zip Codes | 79201 |
at childress, TX,, when is power back on?
Power went out around 6:45 this morning