A pair of severe thunderstorms produced large hail over northern Hall County. No damage was reported.
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May 28 Severe Thunderstorm Event Summary...A pair of severe thunderstorms produced large hail over northern Hall County. No damage was 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 May 28, 2:38 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 338 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 .SHORT TERM... SHORT TERM CONCERNS ARE FOCUSED ON THE CHANCE OF SEVERE CONVECTION OVER THE EASTERN FA...AND FIRE WEATHER OVER THE WEST. THE EVOLUTION OF MESOSCALE FEATURES IS SOME WHAT COMPLEX ATTM. A DRYLINE HAS GRADUALLY TIGHTENED THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE INTERSTATE 27 CORRIDOR...WITH LOW 60 DEGREE DEWPOINTS IN PLACE OFF THE CAPROCK WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE. VISIBLE SATELLITE TRENDS DEPICT INCREASING CU VICINITY WEAK CONVERGENCE/CAPROCK ESCARPMENT. A COMPLICATING FACTOR IS THE APPARENT MID LEVEL SPEED MAXIMUM SAMPLED TODAY BY THE WHITE SANDS WIND PROFILER /60KT BETWEEN THE 500 AND 400MB LEVELS AT 18Z/. MID LEVEL WINDS PROPAGATING THROUGH THE DRY SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW SEEN PER VAPOR IMAGERY...ARE ACTUALLY 25 TO 30KT STRONGER THAN INDICATED BY THE SOLUTIONS. WEAK PRESSURE FALLS ARE EVIDENT OVER THE REGION IN ADVANCE OF THIS FEATURE...AND THUS LOW LEVEL WIND FIELDS HAVE FLUCTUATED RESULTING IN A RATHER DIFFUSE DRYLINE/MOISTURE GRADIENT. HAVE INCREASE POPS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE/NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS WHERE RELATIVELY BETTER CONVERGENCE/HIGH INSTABILITY COEXIST. ALTHOUGH PROGGED WIND PROFILES INDICATE MARGINAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR FOR STORM ORGANIZATION...OBSERVED PROFILER WINDS AND DEGREE OF INSTABILITY ARGUE THAT MORE ROBUST/ORGANIZED CONVECTION MAY BE POSSIBLE. THUS WILL INCLUDE A SEVERE MENTION THROUGH THE EVENING. FOR MONDAY...EXPECT RELATIVELY WEAKER LOW LEVEL FLOW AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY INFRINGES SOUTH INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND THE SURFACE TROUGH/DRYLINE TRANSLATES EAST. THE BEST CHANCE FOR CONVECTION SHOULD AGAIN BE EAST OF THE CAPROCK ESCARPMENT. A CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WILL AGAIN BE PRESENT. .LONG TERM... QUESTIONS MARKS IN THE EXTENDED ARE PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES...ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK. 12Z NAM AND WRF BOTH INDICATE A COLD FRONT...PUSHED ALONG BY CONVECTIVE OUTFLOWS...WORKING ITS WAY INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ON TUESDAY...WITH GFS FURTHER NORTH NEAR KS/OK STATE LINE. THIS FRONT SHOULD BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT TUESDAY EVENING...WITH A MCS LIKELY TO ROLL ESE ALONG THE BOUNDARY...WHERE EVER IT MIGHT BE. SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS WOULD TAKE MCS ACROSS THE NE PORTION OF OUR CWA AND HAVE BUMPED UP POPS IN THAT AREA TO ACCOUNT FOR SUCH A SCENARIO. THEN...LOCATION OF FRONT BECOMES EVEN MORE TROUBLESOME GIVEN VARIOUS POSSIBLE OUTCOMES TUESDAY. HAVE MAINTAINED SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS IN THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WITH POTENTIAL FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOMEWHERE IN OR NEAR THE AREA. MID-LEVEL RIDGE EXPECTED TO BUILD AGAIN OVER NM BY WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY TIMEFRAME. HOWEVER..NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH AN EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE PASSING THROUGH THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS /AND ASSOCIATED CONVECTION/ MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO SEND A REINFORCING SURGE OF COOL AIR BACK INTO THE AREA. WITH THE POTENTIAL OF A FRONT IN THE REGION DURING EARLY JUNE...FEEL CONTINUE PRECIPITATION CHANCES ARE WARRANTED. BEYOND THURSDAY...APPEARS FLAT 500 MB RIDGE TO THE WEST WILL BUILD UP...PUTTING CWA IN NORTHERLY FLOW. THIS WILL TEND TO LIMIT PRECIPITATION CHANCES AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB AGAIN INTO THE 90S FOR HIGHS. THUS...HAVE KEPT POPS BELOW MENTIONABLE LEVELS THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. MADE ONLY SLIGHT CHANCES TO THE GRIDS. && .FIRE WEATHER... DEEP BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING IS CONTRIBUTING TO RED FLAG CONDITIONS WEST OF THE DRYLINE. WILL ALLOW THE WARNING TO PERSIST THROUGH AT LEAST 01Z. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 59 96 63 89 / 10 0 0 20 TULIA 63 95 60 92 / 20 10 10 20 PLAINVIEW 65 95 65 92 / 10 10 10 20 LEVELLAND 65 96 64 94 / 10 10 10 20 LUBBOCK 67 95 68 96 / 10 10 10 20 BROWNFIELD 67 96 64 93 / 10 10 10 20 CHILDRESS 70 96 69 96 / 30 30 30 30 SPUR 69 96 67 96 / 20 20 20 20 ASPERMONT 71 96 73 98 / 20 20 20 30 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 8 PM SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BAILEY...CASTRO...COCHRAN...HALE...HOCKLEY...LAMB...LUBBOCK... LYNN...PARMER...SWISHER...TERRY...AND YOAKUM. && 20/23
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 518 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 TXZ024-025-282245- BRISCOE TX-HALL TX- 518 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES... AT 516 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRICE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF QUITAQUE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM WAS MOVING ALONG HIGHWAY 256. 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 539 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 TXZ030-031-282315- MOTLEY TX-FLOYD TX- 539 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS FLOYD AND MOTLEY COUNTIES... AT 538 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLOMOT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF QUITAQUE...MOVING NORTHEAST 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 552 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 TXZ025-282315- HALL TX- 552 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS HALL COUNTY... AT 551 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BRICE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF MEMPHIS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF BRICE...SOUTH BRICE...LESLEY AND LAKEVIEW. STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:06 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A motorist reported large hail up to the size of golfballs along Texas Highway 70 from just north of Brice to the Hall and Donley County line.
The public reported that penny size hail covered the ground at a rural residence just south of Farm to Market Road 256 in northern Hall County.
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