Event narrative (NOAA)
An NWS storm survey team observed damage to utility poles, trees, and center pivots in and around Levelland. Damage escalated in both coverage and intensity east of US Highway 385 with a concentrated area of damage noted in and around Kauffman Park. Here, winds of 90 mph to 120 mph caused partial failures to some roofs and completely destroyed several wooden outbuildings. Many homes and vehicles|suffered broken windows with roughly one dozen trees uprooted. One home lost roughly 30 percent of its roof and insulation while a wooden framed workshop in its backyard was completely destroyed and|blown two homes away. Numerous wooden and metal fences were also heavily damaged or destroyed. The Penny Newman cotton gin on the east side of Levelland suffered total destruction from winds estimated a
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.