9 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 16, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 300 PM CDT MON APR 16 2001 A CLOSED UPPER LEVEL H5 LOW OVER NORTHERN WI WILL DIG SOUTH INTO THE THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY BY 12Z TUE. THIS WILL CAUSE A COLD SURFACE RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS TO BUILD SOUTH INTO TX AND OK ON TUE. AT 18Z THE COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST NM...SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN TX PANHANDLE. TEMPERATURES NORTH OF THE FRONT OVER KS WERE IN THE 40S. SOUTH OF THE FRONT EAST AND SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS HAVE ADVECTED DEEPER MOISTURE NORTHWEST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA. SFC DEW POINTS WERE IN THE MID TO UPPER 50S SOUTH OF A SJT TO CVS LINE. THE MESO ETA SOUNDINGS SHOW A WEAK CAP IN PLACE WITH 1500 J/KG OF CAPE. CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES WILL PROBABLY BE REACHED LATER THIS AFTERNOON ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF EASTERN NM AND THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL PROBABLY DEVELOP OVER EASTERN NM AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA. ATTM I WILL PROBABLY GO WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTH ACROSS THE CWFA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE COLD FRONT WILL BE DEEP ENOUGH TO SCOUR THE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...SO OUR RAIN CHANCES WILL END BEFORE 6Z. THE ETA MODEL DOES SHOW WAA BETWEEN THE 800 AND 700MB LEVEL... BUT AN EML ABOVE 700MB SHOULD CAP ANY ELEVATED CONVECTION FROM DEVELOPING LATER TONIGHT. NORTHEAST SURFACE WINDS WILL INCREASE AFTER FROPA TO OVER 20 KTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS. AN EASTERLY COMPONENT TO THE SURFACE WIND WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH UPLIFT WEST OF THE CAP ROCK ESCARPMENT FOR AREAS OF DRIZZLE TO FORM AS LONG AS THE SURFACE T/TD DEPRESSION ARE LOW ENOUGH. THE DRIZZLE WILL END BY NOON TOMORROW AS DRIER AIR FROM THE NORTHEAST IS ADVECTED SOUTHWEST ONTO THE CAP ROCK. INTENSE LOW-LEVEL CAA AND CLOUD COVER SHOULD KEEP TUESDAY HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. IF THE CLOUD COVER DOES BREAK...ANY SOLAR INSOLATION WILL CAUSE HIGH TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY TO BE A COUPLE OF CATEGORIES WARMER. THE ETA MODEL SHOWS AN H5 RIDGE DEVELOPING OVER WEST TX ON WEDNESDAY ALONG WITH A SFC LEE TROF. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM INTO THE 70S ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY WITH THE WARMEST TEMPERATURES OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES. EXTENDED OUTLOOK: ALL THE EXTENDED RANGE MODELS SHOW AN H5 TROF DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN CONUS WITH A DOWN STREAM H5 RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS. THE WESTERN CONUS TROF WILL APPROACH WEST TX THIS WEEKEND PROVIDING THE AREA WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THIS WEEKEND. ATTM IT LOOKS LIKE THE BETTER CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BE NORTH AND EAST OF THE CWFA. AS THE H5 TROF LIFTS NORTHEAST ACROSS WEST TX SUNDAY NIGHT A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WHICH WILL COOL TEMPS SLIGHTLY BY MONDAY. FRIONA 36/48/36/78 2100 TULIA 38/51/37/77 2100 CHILDRESS 43/53/42/70 1-00 BROWNFIELD 42/50/42/77 2100 LUBBOCK 41/52/42/75 2100 ASPERMONT 45/55/44/72 1-00 .LUB...NONE. % 20
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:50 UTC.
9 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Amateur radio SKYWARN spotters reported walnut size hail on Highway 114 west of town.
Amateur radio SKYWARN spotters reported dime size hail in town.
A storm chaser reported half dollar to golfball size hail on Highway 114.
Amateur radio SKYWARN spotters reported quarter size hail south of town on Highway 385.
Golfball size hail was reported in town.
Golfball size hail was reported by law enforcement officials on Highway 385.
Golfball size hail was reported by law enforcement officials on Highway 385 north of Needmore.
Amateur radio SKYWARN spotters reported quarter size hail on Highway 62 south of Meadow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5240837, 5240838, 5240844, 5240845, 5240840, 5240839, 5240841, 5240842, 5240843.