1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 8, 4:25 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 330 PM CDT WED OCT 8 2003 .SHORT TERM... INHERITED FORECAST IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE AND HAVE CHANGED VERY LITTLE. SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS WILL PROGRESS EAST OVER THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS TONIGHT/EARLY THU TAKING MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WITH IT. HOWEVER...RESIDUAL LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL LINGER ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH THU RESULTING IN A GRADUAL BREAK IN LOW CLOUDS THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON THU. MEANWHILE...MID/HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE SHUNTED SOUTHWARD THEREBY RESULTING IN PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS BY LATE AFTERNOON. COMBINATION OF VEERING LOW-LEVEL WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH SURFACE TROUGH SAGGING SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA AND INCREASED INSOLATION COMPARED TO TODAY WILL RESULT IN WARMER TEMPERATURES FOR THU AS WELL. JH/02 .LONG TERM... SHORT WAVE RIDGING ON TAP FOLLOWING SYSTEM PULLING EAST OF THE AREA THURSDAY AND WITH BAJA LOW STILL GENERATING STRONG SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE DESERTS. ALTHOUGH THIS WILL LEAD TO ANOTHER MOISTURE SURGE ON SATURDAY OR SO...ATMOSPHERE WILL BE UNWOUND AT LEAST FROM THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. PERHAPS COULD STILL SEE STRATUS EARLY FRIDAY AND AGAIN EARLY SATURDAY WITH HIGH DEWPOINTS LINGERING AND WITH SURFACE WINDS VEERING AROUND LIGHTLY TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST FRIDAY MORNING...AND THEN MORE SOUTHERLY FRIDAY NIGHT AND A BIT STRONGER. BUT WILL LEAVE DETAILS OF THAT TO LATER SHIFTS. BAJA LOW WOBBLING A BIT TO THE NORTHEAST FRIDAY WILL SEND THE NEXT BULGE OF MID/UPPER LEVEL TROPICAL PACIFIC MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY. THIS APPEARS TO TIME AS NEXT VIGOROUS MID/UPPER LEVEL WAVE CROSSES THE NORTHERN TIER WHICH DRAGS A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS LATE SATURDAY. PREFER THE MORE AGGRESSIVE GFS DEPICTION OF THE FRONT...HOWEVER BACKED OFF SLIGHTLY ON COOLING FOLLOWING THE FRONT. ALSO...DOESNT APPEAR THAT SURFACE MOISTURE WILL DROP SIGNIFICANTLY BEHIND THIS FRONT. SO INCREASED CHANCE OF RAIN SLIGHTLY ON SATURDAY. SOUTHWEST FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE TO OVERRUN COOL SURFACE HIGH ON SUNDAY WHICH WILL AT LEAST AID IN CLOUD DEVELOPMENT PASSAGE OF WAVE TO THE EAST FAVORS LEAVING OUT MENTION OF RAIN FOR NOW...BUT IF BAJA LOW APPROACHES CLOSER SUNDAY THIS COULD CHANGE. EARLY IN THE WEEK...PATTERN EXPECTED TO AMPLIFY SOME MORE CAUSING A SHARPER COLD FRONT TO MOVE INTO THE AREA TUESDAY. MAINTAINED PREVIOUS TEMPERATURE TRENDS. TREND SHOULD BE FOR THE BAJA LOW TO SLOWLY HEAD EAST EARLY NEXT WEEK...BEFORE FINALLY EJECTING ACROSS THE AREA MID TO LATE IN THE WEEK AS FASTER WESTERLY FLOW INVADES THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. DETAILS OF THIS EVENT REMAIN FUZZY...ALTHOUGH VARIOUS MODELS SUGGEST GFS MAY BE CLOSE TO CORRECT. AND THIS SUPPORTS PREVIOUS MENTION OF SHOWERS FOR WEDNESDAY. MCQUEEN/05 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 56 81 53 81 / 60 20 00 10 TULIA 58 80 54 81 / 60 20 00 10 PLAINVIEW 59 80 55 81 / 60 20 00 10 LEVELLAND 59 80 55 83 / 60 20 00 10 LUBBOCK 62 79 56 82 / 60 20 00 10 BROWNFIELD 61 81 56 83 / 60 20 00 10 CHILDRESS 63 83 58 83 / 60 20 00 10 SPUR 64 81 59 83 / 60 20 00 10 ASPERMONT 68 82 60 85 / 70 30 00 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && FCSTID = 02/05
TXZ021>044-091100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 600 AM CDT WED OCT 8 2003 THIS IS A HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:34 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Two to three feet of water flowed across portions of Highway 385 south of Dimmitt and between Dimmitt and Hart on Highway 194.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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