June 17 Severe Weather Summary: Isolated to scattered convection developed near a frontal boundary and surface trough triple point over the Rolling Plains of west Texas during the late afternoon and early evening of the 16th. A few storms became severe with hail and 60 MPH wind gusts.
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June 17 Severe Weather Summary: Isolated to scattered convection developed near a frontal boundary and surface trough triple point over the Rolling Plains of west Texas during the late afternoon and early evening of the 16th. A few storms became severe with hail and 60 MPH wind gusts.
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 Jun 17, 1:14 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 214 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 .SHORT TERM... WTX MESONET INDICATES FRONT HAS MOVED NORTH TO ALONG A SLATON TO ROARING SPRINGS TO CHILDRESS LINE. DEWPOINTS INTO 60S HV RETURNED OFF THE CAPROCK WITH TEMPERATURES INTO THE 90S BUT MOISTURE QUALITY IN QUESTION AS MIXING HAS ALREADY REDUCED DEWPOINT VALUES SOME. EXPECT STORMS TO BATTLE CAP AND DRY AIR FOR A BIT LONGER BEFORE DEVELOPING SW BACK TOWARD SLATON AND POST. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION AS TROUGH AXIS SWINGS THROUGH THIS EVENING THOUGH BEST CHANCE CLEARLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF FRONT. TEMPS LAST NIGHT COOLED NICELY WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE ESPECIALLY ACROSS NW AND EXPECT SAME TREND TONIGHT. SOUTHERLY FLOW EXPECTED TO RETURN ON SUN AROUND SFC RIDGE TO THE EAST AS HEIGHTS BEGIN TO ONCE AGAIN BUILD IN WAKE OF EXITING SYSTEM. INCREASED MAX TEMPS SOME ON SUNDAY GIVEN INCREASING HEIGHT/H8 TEMPS AND MORE SOUTHERLY FLOW RATHER THAN SE. .LONG TERM... UPPER RIDGE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE BUILDING EAST OVER THE AREA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. GFS DEPICTS INVERTED TROUGH ROTATING UNDERNEATH HIGH INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND EVENTUALLY WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY THU. POTENTIAL IMPACTS WITH THIS INCLUDE MORE SOUTHEASTERLY SURFACE FLOW...HIGHER MOISTURE VALUES AND POSSIBLE THETA-E RIDGE DEVELOPING ACROSS ERN NM INTO PNHDL. THESE FEATURES WOULD ARGUE FOR LESS HEAT AND BETTER...MEANING NON-ZERO...CHC OF PRECIP UNDER CENTER OF HIGH ESPECIALLY MID TO LATE PART OF NEXT WEEK. ON THE OTHER HAND...NAM SHOWING MORE TYPICAL S-SW SFC FLOW AND POTENTIAL FOR TEMPS TO AGAIN APPROACH OR LIKELY TOP CENTURY MARK AS EARLY AS TUE. CURRENT FCST ALREADY HAS MAX TEMPS ABV GUIDANCE BUT NOT QUITE AS WARM AS HIGHEST ENSEMBLE MEMBERS AND SMALL POPS LESS THAN 15 PCNT. WITH THIS IN MIND...DID NOT MAKE MANY CHANGES TO CURRENT FCST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 60 93 64 98 / 0 0 0 0 TULIA 59 95 64 97 / 10 10 0 0 PLAINVIEW 63 94 65 97 / 10 10 0 0 LEVELLAND 64 97 67 98 / 10 10 0 0 LUBBOCK 65 95 68 97 / 10 10 10 0 BROWNFIELD 64 96 68 98 / 10 10 10 0 CHILDRESS 65 95 68 99 / 20 10 10 10 SPUR 67 96 67 98 / 20 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 70 98 69 100 / 40 10 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 04/24
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 110 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 TXZ021>044-181645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 110 AM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE ROLLING PLAINS...MOSTLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM PADUCAH TO SPUR TO LAKE ALAN HENRY. HEATING AND INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND STEEP LAPSE RATES WILL CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING LATER THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AN EVENING IN PARTS OF THE ROLLING PLAINS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 505 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 TXZ036-037-172230- DICKENS TX-CROSBY TX- 505 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS CROSBY AND DICKENS COUNTIES... AT 501 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES EAST OF RALLS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF WHITE RIVER LAKE. THIS STORM IS SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 534 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 TXZ036-037-172300- DICKENS TX-CROSBY TX- 534 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS CROSBY AND DICKENS COUNTIES... AT 532 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHITE RIVER LAKE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKENS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...AND SMALL HAIL. IF ON OR NEAR WHITE RIVER LAKE...GET OFF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SOME DISTANCE FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW. DONT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:46 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The public reported severe thunderstorm wind gusts to at least 60 MPH. No reports of significant damage were received.
Motorists returning to their rural residence between Texas Highway 70 and Farm to Market Road 208 in southern Kent County encountered three-quarter inch diameter hail covering the ground in drifts. Event time is estimated by radar given that the severe storm that produced the hail had already departed the area when the hail drifts were discovered.
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