1 flash flood, 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 2, 3:53 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 347 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 .SHORT TERM... AT 19Z CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WAS FIRING UP ALONG A WARM FRONT/SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY. ONE LINE WAS DEVELOPING FROM THE NORTHWEST SOUTH PLAINS...ARCHING SOUTH INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY WITH ANOTHER LINE DEVELOPING ALONG THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH A BROAD SHEAR AXIS ARCHING SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW OVER ARIZONA...ACROSS NORTHERN NEW MEXICO...INTO SOUTH TEXAS. EXPECT SHEAR AXIS TO CONTINUE STRETCHING FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT WITH A FEW MORE IMPULSES MOVING OUT OF FAR WEST TEXAS AND NORTHERN MEXICO. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON PUSHING THE WARM FRONT BACK SOUTH AS A COLD FRONT TONIGHT AND SATURDAY AS A SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS SOUTH ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWED THE CUT-OFF LOW THAT WAS OVER BAJA YESTERDAY MOVING EAST DURING THE NIGHT TO NEAR THE NEW MEXICO BOOTHEEL...WITH THE LOW THEN CURVING BACK AROUND TO THE NORTH AND WEST THIS MORNING. THE CUT-OFF LOW THAT WAS MOVING SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAS WEAKENED AND NOW APPEARS TO HAVE MERGED WITH PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED LOW OVER SOUTHERN ARIZONA. THIS IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT THE MODELS DEPICTED. HOWEVER THE MODELS DO INDICATE A LOW NEAR THE ARIZONA AND MEXICAN BORDER BY THIS EVENING WITH THE LOW SPINNING AROUND SOUTHERN ARIZONA THROUGH SATURDAY. SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT MOISTURE INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. THIS COMBINED WITH THE FRONT AND SHEAR AXIS ACROSS THE REGION AND WITH GOOD JET DYNAMICS AS SUB-TROPICAL JET ROUNDS BASE OF LOW AND MOVES INTO FAR WEST TEXAS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. 08 .LONG TERM... COOL UPSLOPE POST-FRONTAL CONDITIONS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS REMAINING IN FAVORABLE CYCLONIC SHEAR IN BETWEEN RIDGE AXIS OVER CENTRAL TEXAS AND NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LOW SOUTHERN ARIZONA. WITH NO WELL DEFINED IMPULSES INDICATED AT THIS POINT...PLAN TO CONTINUE CHANCE MENTION OF SHOWERS THROUGH SUNDAY ALONG WITH COOL TEMPERATURES. FAIR MODEL AGREEMENT THAT THE LOW WILL FINALLY KICK EAST TOWARD THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY PRODUCING INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE LIFT WITH CONTINUING VERY MOIST CONDITIONS. SLIGHTLY INCREASED MENTION OF PRECIPITATION FROM PREVIOUS CHANGES. STILL EXPECTED MAIN PORTION OF LOW TO PASS TUESDAY WITH BIT OF A DROP OFF OF PRECIPITATION CHANCES. BUT KICKER SYSTEM WILL FOLLOW A SIMILAR PATH AND APPROACH REGION WITH ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS BY THE END OF THE WEEK...AS PREVIOUSLY PLANNED. VERY MINOR CHANGES ALL-IN-ALL FROM PREVIOUS SET. MCQUEEN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 46 59 40 55 / 70 40 40 40 TULIA 48 61 41 57 / 70 30 30 30 PLAINVIEW 48 62 41 56 / 70 30 40 30 LEVELLAND 50 63 42 56 / 70 40 50 40 LUBBOCK 50 64 43 56 / 70 40 40 30 BROWNFIELD 51 65 44 57 / 60 40 50 40 CHILDRESS 51 64 44 61 / 70 30 30 20 SPUR 54 63 44 57 / 70 30 30 30 ASPERMONT 54 63 45 58 / 70 30 30 20 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 08/05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1105 AM CST FRI APR 2 2004 TXZ021>044-031200- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 1105 AM CST FRI APR 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... CONVECTIVE A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY BISECTING THE SOUTH PLAINS FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST COMBINED WITH AN APPROACHING UPPER-LEVEL STORM AND INCREASING LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS ACROSS THE AREA MAY APPROACH REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. HOWEVER INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED TO BE A LIMITING FACTOR AS EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND SHOWERS KEEP TEMPERATURES LOWER THAN YESTERDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:19 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several vehicles were stranded in high water in and around town. Some roads were briefly closed due to the flooding.
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