Powerful winds tore through the New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle on Friday, with gusts approaching 100 mph in some places.

Extreme winds flipped trucks and kicked up blinding dust, shutting down highways in Texas and causing issues across New Mexico and Oklahoma. With visibility near zero and conditions worsening, officials feared more pile-ups would begin to choke roadways.

Extreme wind kicked up dust across areas of Central Texas and the Panhandle on Friday, March 14, creating dangerous driving conditions.

The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory at 9:34 p.m. EDT on Friday valid for Saturday between midnight EDT and 8 p.m. EDT for Cass, St. Joseph, Branch, Hillsdale and Berrien counties.

Friday may be a sure sign of spring, but don’t start setting up your patio furniture just yet. The National Weather Service has a wind advisory for Cuyahoga and counties to the west, starting at 8 a.m.

A line of severe thunderstorms racing across the Midwest could bring destructive winds over 70mph to Chicago and the Southwest Suburbs late Friday night, along with a chance of some tornadoes.

The primary hazard with the storms is damaging wind gusts of 60 miles per hour or greater, though a brief, weak tornado or two is possible.