August 27 Severe Thunderstorm Event Summary: Isolated severe thunderstorms affected the central South Plains of west Texas during the late afternoon and early evening hours of the 27th. These storms resulted in large hail and severe winds that damaged cotton crops and light weight farm equipment.
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August 27 Severe Thunderstorm Event Summary: Isolated severe thunderstorms affected the central South Plains of west Texas during the late afternoon and early evening hours of the 27th. These storms resulted in large hail and severe winds that damaged cotton crops and light weight farm equipment. A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms propagated southeastward over the extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle during the late evening hours. This activity resulted in minor structural damage in Friona. Total damages for the August 27 event were estimated to be more than $280,000.
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 27, 2:21 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 321 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2006 .SHORT TERM... UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO WIND SLOWLY EASTWARD FROM NORTHEASTERN COLORADO INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. AIRMASS HAS BEEN FAIRLY STABLE ON THE SOUTH PLAINS WITH LOW CLOUDS HOLDING DOWN TEMPERATURES FOR MUCH OF THE DAY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. SOME STRONG STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED EAST OF LUBBOCK WITH SOME DECENT ECHOES AND HEAVY RAINFALL RATES SOUTH OF RALLS AND CROSBYTON ATTM. NEXT FRONTAL SURGE WILL MOVE SOUTH AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHERN PLAINS IN WAKE OF UPPER LOW. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS FRONT OVERNIGHT WITH RAIN CHANCES HIGHEST ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF THE AREA AS LIFT AND BOUNDARY CONVERGENCE ACT ON HIGH MOISTURE VALUES. PRECIPITATION LOOKS TO FOCUS MONDAY JUST NORTH OF FRONT IN REGION OF ENTRANCE REGION TO UPPER JET FROM THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND PERMIAN BASIN INTO NORTH TEXAS...THUS WENT WITH HIGHER POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES. SHOULD BE COOLER MONDAY WITH STILL SOME CLOUD COVER AROUND AND COOLER NORTHEAST WINDS. .LONG TERM... THE UPR LOW WILL CONTINUE SLOWLY MOVING EAST TUE/WED INTO THE MS VLY WITH TROUGH TRAILING SW INTO CENTRAL TX. SFC COLD FRONT TO BE WELL SOUTH OF THE CWA BY TUE MORN...WITH SOMEWHAT DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR INHIBITING SHOWER ACTIVITY EXCEPT ACROSS THE SW COUNTIES WHERE UPSLOPE LOW-LVL FLOW SHOULD BE GREATER. IT APPEARS THAT WED MAY BE SHAPING UP TO HAVE THE LOWEST PRECIP CHCS THIS WEEK FOR THE CWA WITH DIVERGENT LOW-LVL FLOW ON PERIPHERY OF SFC RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND BUILDING HEIGHTS OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES...ALTHOUGH WILL MAINTAIN LOW POPS ACROSS THE SW AS 850MB FLOW BEGINS TO VEER AND MAY PROVIDE SOME ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER THE DECAYING FRONT. DURING THIS PERIOD IT APPEARS THAT THE MONSOON PATTERN WILL BE RE-ESTABLISH ACROSS THE DESERT SW INTO THE SRN ROCKIES AS FLOW AROUND THE BUILDING RIDGE CARRIES MOISTURE NORTHWARD. CONFIDENCE IN THE FCST REALLY DECREASES THU AND BEYOND AS IT SEEMS MODEL GUIDANCE IS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT THE UPR-AIR PATTERN WILL BECOME PROGRESSIVE OR BLOCKY. THE 12Z GFS IS ON THE PROGRESSIVE SIDE...BRINGING A VIGOROUS SHTWV TROUGH INTO THE NRN ROCKIES THU WITH LOWERING HEIGHTS AND INCREASING SW FLOW ALOFT ACROSS WTX. AS THIS SYSTEM EMERGES ONTO THE PLAINS ON FRI...THE GFS SENDS A COLD FRONT RACING SOUTH INTO THE SPLNS ON FRI. THIS IS 12-18 HRS FASTER THAN THE 0Z GFS RUN AND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE 06Z RUN WHICH DEPICTED THE CLOSED UPR LOW MOVING NE TO THE CANADIAN BORDER AND NO SOUTHWARD PUSH TO THE COLD FRONT. WITH THIS IN MIND DECIDED TO MAINTAIN INTEGRITY OF EXTENDED FCST...MAKING FEW CHANGES...WHILE CONTINUING TO SHOW THE FRONT COMING IN EARLY SAT MORN. THIS TIMING APPEARS TO BE SUPPORTED BY LATEST ECMWF RUN....ALTHOUGH THE ECMWF IS NOT AS DEEP AS THE GFS WITH THE UPR TROUGH AS IT MOVES INTO THE PLAINS. IT DOES APPEAR THAT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD PRECIP CHCS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AS EARLY AS THU NIGHT AND ESPECIALLY BY FRI NIGHT/SAT MORN. TEMPERATURE SHOULD SHOW A SLOW WARMING TREND TUE THROUGH THU BEFORE MAKING A DOWNWARD TURN FOR THE WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 62 81 58 81 / 40 30 20 20 TULIA 65 81 60 82 / 50 30 20 20 PLAINVIEW 66 83 60 81 / 50 40 20 20 LEVELLAND 66 84 61 82 / 50 50 30 30 LUBBOCK 68 86 63 83 / 50 50 30 30 BROWNFIELD 67 86 62 83 / 60 50 40 40 CHILDRESS 69 86 66 84 / 60 30 20 10 SPUR 71 87 64 82 / 60 50 20 20 ASPERMONT 71 88 67 87 / 60 60 30 30 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 06/33
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 607 AM CDT SUN AUG 27 2006 TXZ021>044-281115- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 607 AM CDT SUN AUG 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS MAY BECOME FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. FLOODING LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 617 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2006 TXZ029-035-280000- HALE TX-LUBBOCK TX- 617 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS LUBBOCK AND HALE COUNTIES... AT 615 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. ONE STRONG STORM WAS INTENSIFYING OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PETERSBURG. THESE STORMS WERE ALMOST STATIONARY. SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR THESE STORMS. STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:35 UTC.
2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A farmer reported nickel size hail north of Petersburg. The hail caused minor damage to area cotton crops.
A farmer reported that severe thunderstorm winds damaged an eight-inch diameter aluminum irrigation pipe when it was blown out of a cotton field and across Farm to Market Road 54 west of Petersburg.
Local agricultural officials reported that large hail up to the size of nickels resulted in damage to cotton crops near South Plains.
A complex of severe thunderstorms propagated southeastward over the extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle during the late evening hours of the 27th. This activity resulted in damaging winds near Friona. A 64 mph wind gust was measured by the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site just northeast of the city at 23:20 CST. The Parmer County Sheriff's Office reported estimated winds between 60 and 70 mph between 23:30 and 23:50 CST. These winds damaged multiple light weight structures and downed utility lines across the city. At least two large carports were destroyed by the winds. Three additional structures suffered moderate roof damage, including a large grain elevator. Electrical services were finally restored to the city around 03:00 CST on the 28th. No injuries were reported.
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