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APR cTEXAS W A HER NEW TOP)
LyECOMED RAINS OF UP TO FOUR INCHES HAVE FALLEN AT SCATTERED POINTS
IN WEST TEXAS AS A NEW WAVE OF TURBULENT WEATHER MOVES ACROSS THE
STATE THIS MORNING.
TORNADOES AND THUNDERSTORMS PACKING LARGE HAILSTONES CHURNED ACROSS
MUCH OF THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF TEXAS DURING THE NIGHT BUT NO
SERIOUS DAMAGE WAS REPORTED.
RANFALL MEASURED UNOFFICIALLY AT UP TO FOUR INCHES FELL AROUND
MERTZON AND OZONA, IN THE SAN ANGELO AREA AND ON THE CRITICALLY DRY
EDWARDS PLATEAU. CHILDRESS HAD MORE THAN FOUR INCHES.
LT STORMS AND SHOWERS ARE BEING SET OFF BY A PACIFIC FRONT, WHOSE
FORWARD EDGE LIES ON A LINE RUNNING FROM WICHITA FALLS AND SAN ANTONIO
HE TRAILING EDGE ON A LINE FROM CHILDRESS TO DEL RIO.
CHILDRESS WITH 4.10 INCHES HAD THE HEAVIEST REPORTED DOWNPOUR IN THE
STATE, MERTZON AND OZONA HAD ABOUT FOUR INCHES AND SAN ANCELO, WHICH HAD
RECEIVED LESS THAN ONE-HALF INCH OF RAIN SINCE LAST OCTOBER, REPORTED
3.06 INCHES.
DEL RIO, WHICH WAS ALSO POUNDED BY A HEAVY HAIL STORMS MEASURED
2.13 INCHE$.
FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE SIGHTED NEAR STRATFORD AND FARWELL IN THE
PANHANDLE.
HE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS MORNING IS CENTERED IN THE
CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE AND INCLUDES THE WICHITA FALLS, ABILENE,
BROWNWOOD, STEPHENVILLE, JUNCTION, SAN ANTONIO AND DEL RIO AREAS.
IN FAR WEST TEXAS SKIES HAVE CLEARED BUT THEY ARE MOSTLY CLOUDY
AHEAD OF THE FRONT.
TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE 40S AND 50S BEHIND THE FRONT AND IN THE
60S AND 70S AHEAD OF IT.RW732ACS 16
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Texas weather new top], script, April 16, 1971, 8:25 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1422403/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.