7 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 Aug 30, 5:51 AM CST, 6 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 651 AM CDT MON AUG 30 2004 .UPDATE... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REDEVELOPED THIS MORNING ACROSS THE NORTH-CENTRAL CWA. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THE WEST TEXAS MESONET SITE AT SILVERTON. NOT CERTAIN HOW LONG THE STORMS WILL LAST BUT WITH WEAK SHORT-WAVE ENERGY MOVING THROUGH THE AREA PROVIDING SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT AND O6Z MODELS CONTINUING TO SHOW QPF ACROSS THE CWA HAVE DECIDED TO INCREASE POPS THIS MORNING...TAPERING FROM NE TO SW AND HAVE CONTINUED LOW POPS THROUGH THE EVENING. UPDATED PRODUCTS OUT SHORTLY. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 33/14
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 600 AM CDT MON AUG 30 2004 TXZ021>044-301800- BAILEY-BRISCOE-CASTRO-CHILDRESS-COCHRAN-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD- GARZA-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-KENT-KING-LAMB-LUBBOCK-LYNN-MOTLEY-PARMER- STONEWALL-SWISHER-TERRY-YOAKUM- 600 AM CDT MON AUG 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... CONVECTIVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT. WHILE THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS...THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. BRIEF PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. .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 18:39 UTC.
7 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
Spotters reported golfball size hail.
The public reported golfball size hail.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2004
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: 5417827, 5417821, 5417822, 5417823, 5417824, 5417825, 5417826.