DFW Clocks It's Highest Wind Gust On Record

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5 Aug 2025 5:22 PM

History was made earlier this week. A powerful line of storms raced from southwest Kansas to the Gulf overnight Sunday night into Monday morning. As it was making the journey, damaging winds dotted its path.

After a largely quiet trek through Oklahoma, the Mesoscale Convective System flexed in Dallas. A wind gust of 89 mph was clocked at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at approximately 5:39 AM CDT. The lack of widespread damage with a gust like that meant the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth was going to dig a little deeper.

After doing some digging, including checking with another nearby radar, they determined a microburst caused the localized 89 mph report, the highest ever at the airport. That beat the previous highest 3 second wind gust of 81 mph back on August 2, 1985.

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