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Today's Severe Weather Outlook

Wet Saturday

Thunderstorms are likely this afternoon especially in the lower South Plains and the western Rolling Plains. Some storms may be severe with very large hail up to baseball size and damaging wind gusts. The chance of a tornado is low but cannot be ruled out in the strongest storms.

Lows tonight will be in the 50s areawide with cloudy skies, breezy south winds, and moist conditions.

Severe thunderstorms are possible today for all of the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and far southern Texas Panhandle. Hail up to baseball size , 70 mph wind gusts, and a tornado is possible.

A cloudy, cool and wet Saturday awaits much of the region as multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms track eastward behind a cold front. Some storms could be severe, but there is a greater threat for heavy rain with some flooding at times.

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Local Weather History For May 3rd...

1961: An outbreak of severe weather including at least five tornadoes struck Briscoe, Floyd, Cottle, Dickens, and King
Counties late this afternoon and into the early nighttime. The first tornado moved over undeveloped land from about 10
miles north of Dickens southeastward to about 10 miles south of Guthrie. The next tornado was sighted about one mile north
of Dougherty around 6 PM before moving to about two miles south of town at which point it was accompanied by a second
tornado. The larger of the two tornadoes passed east of town with the lesser tracking directly through Dougherty where it
destroyed three trailer homes, blew away a barn, ripped the porch off a home, and overturned several cotton trailers.
About 1/2 of the population of 150 were in storm cellars when the tornado struck and there were no injuries reported. The
larger tornado remained about one mile from the smaller tornado and fortunately tracked over open country before
dissipating around 6:10 PM. The fourth tornado this day was brief and spotted in open land in northeast Briscoe County
about 25 miles SW of Clarendon. The final tornado occurred at some point this night on the old Matador ranch (12 miles
west of Paducah) and damaged only mesquite trees throughout its short path. Many of these storms also produced very large
hail at times up to baseball size as was noted three miles north of Dougherty. Silverton suffered damage to roofs and
autos from hail slightly larger than baseballs and some area wheat crops were a complete loss. Similar hail damage
occurred in Turkey and Dickens, but was generally less in magnitude than Silverton.