If you crave pictures of severe weather, you've found your home here. Upload your photos or video (taking care to only take photos and videos from a safe location) to us and share your experience! Snapped An Awesome Shot? Share Your Photo! Another EF2 rated tornado touched down in Morgan County, Colorado, damaging motor homes and causing some minor injuries. On Saturday evening, an EF2 rated tornado did damage and injured five people in northeast Colorado near the town of Wray. (MORE: Severe Weather Impacts the Plains) Hail as large as baseballs was reported in Hawley, Texas. Sunday afternoon and evening tornadoes were reported in parts of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, however there was no major damage. With winds reaching 60 to 70 mph and baseball-sized hail, the storm caused catastrophic damage in just a half hour. There were 11 spotter report (s) with reported max hail size of 1.75 and an average hail size of 1.22. This hail storm was traveling N at 13 mph and the entire storm produced hail for roughly 9 hour (s). Flash flooding was reported in Paris, Texas with multiple high water rescues Monday night. Doppler radar detected Quarter size hail near Midland, TX, Odessa, TX and Brownwood, TX on May 20, 2023. Wind damage was reported in Salem, Arkansas with structural damage to some airport buildings and planes severely damaged. They are the ones who will be around long after the storm has passed.A wind gust of 88 mph was measured near Sulphur, Oklahoma Monday evening. “Seek local roofers and building contractors who have built a good reputation in the community. “Homeowners in Midland and Odessa should work with building contractors who have offices in the area,” said Mark Hanna, an ICT spokesperson.
Doppler radar has detected hail at or near Midland, TX on 97 occasions, including 4 occasions during the past year. The Insurance Council of Texas is urging homeowners to avoid storm-chasing roofers who will be coming into the area searching for work. The Midland, TX area has had 110 reports of on-the-ground hail by trained spotters, and has been under severe weather warnings 24 times during the past 12 months. “Our investigators will be visiting with local officials and talking to residents to help them recognize potential scams."
“Unfortunately, a big storm can also draw some bad contractors and scam artists to the area,” said TDI Fraud Chief Christopher Davis. The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has sent a team of fraud investigators to the area to deter any criminal element drawn to the scene after this week’s storms. In 1981, massive thunderstorms brought 100 mph winds, tornadoes, flash floods and grapefruit-sized hailstones of over 4.5 inches in diameter to Texas and the surrounding region, including. Companies have declared the storm a catastrophe and are sending in additional adjusters to handle the claims, the press release states. Amanda Bell with the Davis Body Shop in Odessa said everybody is swamped from last night’s storm, especially the glass companies.īoth homeowners and vehicle owners are urged to assess the damage to their property and contact their insurance companies as soon as possible. “We’ve had hail as large as 4 and a quarter inches and wind gusts near 70 miles per hour reported in both Midland and Odessa and in adjoining counties,” said Lister.Īuto body shops in the area are expected to begin filling up quickly with damaged cars. “We’ve been hit with large hail the last two days and last night was especially hard and we are supposed to get hit again tonight.”Īlex Lister, senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in Midland, said grapefruit size hail was reported one mile south of Midland while baseball size hail was reported in Odessa. “It’s been nuts,” said Andrea Hidalgo with the Tara Simmons Insurance Agency in Odessa. Local insurance agencies are also trying to keep up with the number of reported claims, according to an Insurance Council of Texas press release. Insurance company catastrophe teams are arriving in both cities to handle the high volume of claims. An isolated tornado or two is also possible. So we definitely have to think about large hail this afternoon. MIDLAND - Wind gusts of up to 72 miles per hour and hail as large as grapefruit struck the Midland/Odessa area on June 14, ensuring thousands of West Texans woke up to damaged roofs and automobiles with shattered windshields. One report was grapefruit size hail, which was measured at 4 inches in diameter.
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