Winds in West Texas, southeastern New Mexico and the Panhandle blew consistently between ... Meteorologist David Hennig called the sheer scope of the dust storm “impressive.” ...

Severe winds and a dust storm were being blamed for wildfires, power outages and highway closures Tuesday evening around the Texas Panhandle-South Plains. Local and state fire crews were facing ...

Parts of the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma were under blowing dust warnings until early Wednesday. Severe dust storms also hit New Mexico, where authorities had urged people to avoid driving Tuesday.

Dust storms are driven by winds that lift loose ... Then they move into eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma and Kansas, which is essentially the 1930s Dust Bowl region.