Power Outage in Adams, OK

Thunderstorm Wind. Reports were received of barn roof sheared/blown off and as well as downed power poles from the wind.

June 27, 2023

During the evening of the 15th a line of storms, of which contained supercells, formed over portions of southwest Kansas and extend south through Beaver County, OK into the northeastern portions of the Texas Panhandle. The supercell furthest south dropped a tornado on Perryton, TX killing three people and leaving a path of distruction over 6 miles. Several other landspout tornadoes spun up further south of Perryton along the flanking line of the tornadic supercell. One of these landpouts took out some power poles, but remained mostly in grasslands. These tornadic supercells also produced large hail between 1 and 2.5 in diameter.

June 15, 2023

A potent storm system raced across Colorado and Kansas through the day, causing strong to extreme southwest to west winds across the area, but especially across the northern Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. By mid-morning, winds were already gusting to well over 60 mph across the northwest half of the Panhandles. Wind gusts were measured at 70 to 90 mph by observation sites during the peak of the wind event which occurred between 11 am and 3 pm. Sustained winds ranged from 40 to 50 mph during this period and some site briefly measured sustained winds close to 60 mph. These winds led to damage to trees, powerlines, and roofs in areas where the strongest winds occurred. In addition, there were several reports of semi trucks being overturned across the area. Blowing dust caused widespread visibility reductions down to 1 to 3 miles and there were reports of localized areas where visibility dropped to less than a 1/4 mile leading to several major accidents and road closures. Three of the fires in the Panhandles were classified as significant wildfires as they raced uncontrolled across the landscape.

December 15, 2021

Strong southwesterly winds occurred across the Panhandles during the day on Friday, December 10th. The surface cyclone developed in southeast Colorado the morning of the 10th, before moving east into southwest Kansas and deepening further. Deep mixing occurred under mostly clear skies further enhancing winds in the area. With the position of the surface low in southeast Kansas by the afternoon hours, highest wind gusts mainly occurred in the central Panhandles during the early afternoon hours. A few gusts reported at or over 70 mph were achieved. Strong winds caused sporadic power outages. Persistent blowing dusts produced widespread conditions of limited visibility for drivers across the Panhandles which did lead to some accidents. US 287 was closed in both directions for several hours between FM 1912 and FM 2373 due to low visibility with traffic detoured to I-40. A cold front moved south through the Panhandles starting around 3-4 PM on the 10th. In the wake of the cold front, cooler and more stable conditions led to diminishing winds going into the evening hours.

December 10, 2021

A slow moving upper level storm system contributed to development of severe storms for a third consecutive day as it moved east to the Four Corners region by May 17th. With the system drawing nearer, wind shear and instability increased from what occurred with the previous days events and so did storm organization and strength. A line of thunderstorms that developed near a surface trough in New Mexico moved into the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles in the late afternoon and evening hours. Several storms produced severe hail and wind especially across the southern Texas Panhandle. A few very powerful storms produced hail in excess of 2 inches in diameter and there was also a breif, weak tornado reported in open country across the southwest Texas Pahandle. Impacts reported in the Oklahoma Panhandle were mainly due to severe wind gusts with storms in the area.

May 17, 2021