1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Aug 29, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 255 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 LATEST WATER VAPOR SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER WESTERN CONUS WITH A SHORTWAVE OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND NORTHERN NEVADA. A WEAK CIRCULATION WAS ALSO NOTED OVER NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE 12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AT 500 MB HAD A TROF EXTENDING SOUTH FROM SOUTHEAST COLORADO...ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER TO THE BIG BEND. AT 18Z A SURFACE LOW WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN COLORADO WITH A TROF EXTENDING INTO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO. WITH ONLY SLIGHT DIFFERENCES...AVN STRONGER AND NGM FASTER... MODELS MOVE THE SHORTWAVES SLOWLY EASTWARD. THE RIDGE AMPLIFIES AS IT MOVES INTO THE ROCKIES BY THURSDAY. A WEAK TROF/SHEAR AXIS REMAINS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH FRIDAY AS A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES MOVE THROUGH THE RIDGE INTO THE PLAINS. AVN AND NGM MORE AGGRESSIVE ON MOVING FRONT INTO PANHANDLES BY FRIDAY... HOWEVER THEY ALL HAVE IT WASHING OUT NORTH OF FORECAST AREA. ONGOING CONVECTION OVER EASTERN ZONES WITH CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO ATTM. PLENTY OF MOISTURE OVER WEST TEXAS WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER BETWEEN 1 AND 1.5 INCHES. WITH SHEAR AXIS/MID LEVEL TROF EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN AREA AND SURFACE TROF NEAR THE NEW MEXICO BORDER WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH FRIDAY. ON EXTENDED: UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BEGINS TO AMPLIFY OVER FOUR CORNERS WITH TROF/SHEAR AXIS MOVING EASTWARD FRIDAY NIGHT WILL THUS GO WITH CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT. AS 500 MB HIGH BUILDS OVER NORTHERN MEXICO AND RIDGE AMPLIFIES ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS FORECAST AREA IS IN A NORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW. WILL GO WITH CHANCE TO SLIGHT CHANCE OF MAINLY NOCTURNAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN ZONES THROUGH THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. PRELIMINARY: FRIONA 60 83 60 82 / 30 20 30 20 TULIA 59 84 60 83 / 30 20 30 20 CHILDRESS 66 88 66 88 / 20 05 20 20 BROWNFIELD 64 87 64 87 / 20 10 20 20 LUBBOCK 64 86 64 86 / 20 10 20 20 ASPERMONT 68 89 68 89 / 20 05 20 20 .LUB...NONE. JV/08
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a storage tank and caused a fire that engulfed two such tanks.
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, August 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: 5261798.