June 21 High Wind Event Summary: A complex of non-severe thunderstorms propagated over the west Texas South Plains region during the evening of the 21st. A series of wake-lows developed along the back edge of the convection.
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June 21 High Wind Event Summary: A complex of non-severe thunderstorms propagated over the west Texas South Plains region during the evening of the 21st. A series of wake-lows developed along the back edge of the convection. At least two of these features resulted in severe wind gusts that caused damage across portions of Swisher and Lubbock Counties. Winds that were measured by the West Texas Mesonet at speeds up to 72 MPH severely damaged a mobile home near Vigo Park (Swisher County) around 20:00 CST. More than two and a half hours later, winds measured by the West Texas Mesonet, the Automated Surface Observing System at Lubbock International Airport, and at the National Weather Service Forecast Office, reached speeds up to 68 MPH. These winds destroyed a barn, blew the roof off of a mobile home, and downed road signs from Shallowater to Lubbock (Lubbock County). The most significant damage occurred near Idalou, where severe winds caused extensive damage to the Lubbock Children's Home facility. Roofs were blown off of several structures, and large trees were uprooted. No injuries were reported.
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 21, 2:55 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 355 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 .SHORT TERM... PLUME OF MID LEVEL MOISTURE IN WEAK SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BENDING ACROSS WESTERN ZONES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. LOW LEVEL FLOW HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY CONVERGENT NEAR THE NEW MEXICO BORDER ALL DAY AND MODEST SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE HIGH 40S TO LOWER 50S REMAIN ACROSS THIS REGION. THE LATEST RUC HAS BEEN MOST CONSISTENT AND CORRECT SHOWING THESE MIXED DEWPOINTS AND BREAKING OUT PRECIPITATION OVER THE FAR NORTHWEST INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. GFS INDICATES THE BATCH TO THE SOUTHWEST AS WELL...PERHAPS HAVING AN IMPACT INTO SOUTHWESTERN AND EVEN WEST CENTRAL COUNTIES LATER IN THE EVENING AS LOWER LEVELS WINDS BACK MORE TO THE SOUTHEAST. ANYWAY...WE WILL RETAIN PREVIOUS LOW CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AREA TONIGHT. MODERATE CAPES AND LOW SHEAR WITH HIGH BASES STILL SPELL A WIND GUST THREAT...AND A LOWER HAIL THREAT...AS IN THE EARLY MORNING FORECAST. RIDGE HEIGHTS SHOULD DIP A BIT MORE ON THURSDAY AS RIDGE BEGINS TO REFORM FURTHER WEST...ALLOWING A WEAKNESS ALOFT AND CONTINUED LOW CHANCE OF STORMS LATE IN THE DAY. THICKNESS COOLING ALSO SHOULD ALLOW ABOUT 3 DEGREES COOLING FROM TODAY MOST AREAS. SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT TO PREVIOUS TEMPERATURE GRIDS. MCQUEEN .LONG TERM... RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE UPWARD AS THURSDAY EVENING PROGRESSES WITH SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT EDGING SOUTHWARD INTO THE NORTHERN CWA. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE COMBINED WITH WEAK SHORTWAVE SHOULD RESULT IN MCS DEVELOPMENT ACRS THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE BY THE EVENING HRS. FAVORABLE NORTHWEST FLOW WILL SEND COMPLEX OF STORMS SOUTHEAST WITH BEST CHC OF WETTING RAINS ACRS THE NORTHEAST QUADRANT OF THE CWA. SEVERE THREAT WILL BE POTENTIAL FOR LARGER HAIL EARLY THEN OUTFLOW WINDS LATER AS MCS MATURES. WILL BUMP UP POPS IN THE KCDS VCNTY TO NR 60 PERCENT. OUTFLOW/COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVG ON THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT WITH COOLER CONDITIONS FINALLY ARRIVING FOR FRI AND SAT. DID NOT GO AS COOL AS GFS/NAM WRF NUMBERS...WITH UNCERTAINTY IN LINGERING CLOUD COVER AND POST FRONTAL PRECIP. BEST PRECIP CHANCE TO SHIFT SOUTH OF THE AREA ALONG FRONT FOR FRIDAY EVENING. REMAINDER OF FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE WHICH FEATURES SLOW WARM-UP THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. LOW POPS DURG THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HRS LOOK FINE WITH POSSIBLE MCS ACTIVITY ROLLING IN FROM NEW MEXICO. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 65 94 65 88 / 40 30 40 20 TULIA 66 90 66 86 / 30 20 50 30 PLAINVIEW 66 93 67 88 / 30 20 40 30 LEVELLAND 66 94 66 90 / 30 20 20 30 LUBBOCK 70 94 68 90 / 20 20 30 30 BROWNFIELD 66 94 67 91 / 30 20 20 30 CHILDRESS 70 92 69 89 / 20 20 60 30 SPUR 68 93 70 89 / 10 10 30 30 ASPERMONT 69 93 73 90 / 10 10 30 30 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1147 AM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 TXZ021>044-221700- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1147 AM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT... WHILE LARGE HAIL WILL BE A LESSER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. SEVERE OUTFLOW WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 555 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 TXZ022-023-220000- CASTRO TX-SWISHER TX- 555 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF GUSTNADOES OVER SWISHER AND CASTRO COUNTIES... AT 552 PM CDT SPOTTERS REPORTED A GUSTNADO 5 MILES EAST OF HAPPY. GUSTNADOES ARE BRIEF SPINUPS THAT FORM ALONG GUST FRONTS AHEAD OF THUNDERSTORMS. GUSTNADOES GENERALLY DO NOT LAST LONG AND RARELY PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. AT 600 PM...RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXTENDED FROM NEAR HAPPY TO SOUTHWEST OF DIMMITT. THE ACTIVITY WAS GENERALLY MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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