The National Weather Service (NWS) wants your wind damage photos before you clean up from Sunday night’s storms. North Texas officially recorded 14 wind gusts over 50 mph.
Across the Metroplex, Fort Worth Meacham and Arlington had gusts of 53 mph, Fort Worth Alliance and Denton Airport recorded 55 mph and McKinney National Airport’s peak gust was 58 mph.
Widespread strong winds increased stretching over 200 miles along the cold front north into Oklahoma, reaching 86 mph in Fittstown south of Ada.
The National Weather Service in Norman Oklahoma has preliminary reports of 7 tornadoes, two of which appear to be solid EF2 (118-161 mph) tornadoes. Teams from the weather service will be out surveying damage the next 2 days.
Straight-line winds got under the eaves and ripped the sheet metal roof completely off Melba Wallace’s barn and spread it across her pasture, near Ardmore, Oklahoma. Winds across the ancient granite rocks of the Arbuckle Mountains peaked over 75 mph last night. The Arbuckle range lies across Murray, Carter, Pontotoc, and Johnston counties and along I-35 in southeastern Oklahoma.
Survey teams are looking for evidence of a “Derecho” which is a line of intense, widespread, fast-moving windstorms and sometimes thunderstorms that moves across a great distance and is characterized by damaging winds.
If you received any wind damage from Sunday night’s storms the National Weather Service would greatly value your pictures and reports as they are trying to document a pattern of widespread wind damage from a potential Derecho.
You can email your photos and reports directly to them at sr-oun.spotter@noaa.gov .
NOTE: Documenting a Derecho event can be challenging because it takes a lot of reports over a widespread area. People most often do not consider their damage to be an important part of a larger picture and fail to take pictures and note the day and time it took place.
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