The Dust Bowl, the name given to the drought and resulting dust storms on the plains, lasted from 1930 to 1940, although the dates vary by location. Texas Sources The Handbook of Texas Online: Dust Bowl In-depth article, with bibliography, on the weather and market forces that combined to create the Dust Bowl in Texas and the U.S. government response to the problem. The all-time official maximum monthly occurrence was April 1974 with 150 hours. Additional Sources For Lubbock, the long-term climatology of blowing dust hours shows a peak in the late winter-early spring. That's the Lubbock storm on the right in … The 1950s drought lasted for 76 months in the Dust Bowl portion of Texas, 67 months in New Mexico, 58 months in Colorado, 57 months in Oklahoma, and 56 months in Kansas . It affected most of the Great Plains, from the Canadian prairies to the Texas Panhandle. The worst Texas drought in more than a century has left cotton-crop conditions that rival the Dust Bowl of the early 1930s, forcing farmers to abandon more fields than ever before. At its height, the bowl covered 100 million acres of the southern plains. Winds gusted up to 60 miles per hour according to the National Weather Service. LUBBOCK, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A complex of storms moved through Lubbock on Wednesday causing a major dust storm. West Texas Hit With 1,000-Foot-High Dust Storm. Breaking News Emails. Dust storm at the airport in Lubbock, West Texas, on Tuesday. National Weather Service Lubbock. The two were roughly comparable in overall intensity and duration, except in New Mexico and Texas, where the 1950s drought was longer and, in Texas, drier. But the dust storm that hit Lubbock, Texas, earlier this week can legitimately be called Dust Bowl-esque, according to the National Weather Service.