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Local Weather History For September 9th...
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1987: A rare spring-like pattern developed over the western South Plains this afternoon culminating with a mini-outbreak
of severe thunderstorms with tornadoes, large hail and intense straight-line winds. Thunderstorms developed near Dimmitt and resulted in several reports of funnel clouds before later exploding into a pair of massive supercells over Lamb County later in the afternoon. These supercells turned due south across eastern Hockley County with the lead storm causing the most destruction. This storm produced a 15-minute F1 tornado that touched down 3.5 miles north of Smyer and inflicted heavy damage to an old residence. The very slow movement of this tornado allowed it to be observed by several storm spotters. A second, brief tornado was reported near Smyer around 7:35 PM, but damaged nothing. This same supercell then raked Ropesville with baseball-size hail driven sideways by wind gusts up to 80 mph wiping out crops along an 8x3 mile long path. Even after sunset, this supercell maintained its intensity as it churned into Dawson County producing two more tornadoes around the Lamesa area. The last report of severe weather from this seven-hour long supercell storm occurred in Howard County after the midnight hour where small hail and downburst winds broke out skylights at the Big Spring Mall. |
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