September 11 Severe Thunderstorm Event Summary: At least two severe hail storms affected parts of the western South Plains of west Texas during the early evening hours of the 11th. These storms produced hail up to the size of quarters.
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September 11 Severe Thunderstorm Event Summary: At least two severe hail storms affected parts of the western South Plains of west Texas during the early evening hours of the 11th. These storms produced hail up to the size of quarters. Some area cotton crops were damaged.
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 Sep 11, 2:22 PM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 322 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2006 .SHORT TERM... WEAK COLD FRONT STILL DIFFICULT TO DISCERN. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT EMANATED FROM MCS THAT AFFECTED THE AREA EARLIER TODAY HAVE LEFT MAINLY DIFLUENCE ACROSS THE FCST AREA WITH AREAS OF WEAK CONVERGENCE IN THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOME WEAK CONFLUENCE ACROSS THE WRN PANHANDLE. IN GENERAL DOES NOT CURRENTLY LOOK FAVORABLE FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION WITHIN THE FCST AREA LATE THIS AFTN OR EARLY THIS EVENING. BETTER OPPORTUNITY LIKELY EXISTS WITH CONVECTION CURRENTLY ONGOING ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF CNTL NEW MEXICO ADVECTING INTO THE WRN ZONES LATER TONIGHT WITH A WSWLY FLOW ALOFT AND LOW LEVEL ELY COMPONENT. WILL ALSO NEED TO WATCH AN UPPER VORT MAX DROPPING SWD THROUGH THE NRN HIGH PLAINS. LATEST MODEL RUN WEAKENS THIS FEATURE CONSIDERABLY BEFORE IT GETS TO THE SRN HIGH PLAINS. HOWEVER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY MAKES IT LOOK MUCH MORE VIGOROUS THAN MODELS INDICATE. AS SUCH WILL CARRY SLIGHT CHANCE POPS INTO THE FCST FOR TUESDAY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE EXTREME NERN ZONES. LOWS TONIGHT NEAR GUIDANCE LOOK FINE. CLOUD COVER...CURRENT DEW POINTS AND EXPECTATION OF LITTLE DECREASE IN DEW POINTS OVERNIGHT SUGGEST RUNNING TOWARD THE SLIGHTLY WARMER END OF THE GUIDANCE NUMBERS. LOW CLOUDS A POSSIBILITY WITH MOIST LOW LEVELS...ALTHOUGH A BACKING OF THE LOW LEVEL FLOW TOWARD NORTH LATE TONIGHT MAY HELP MITIGATE THIS SOME...IF SOME SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR CAN MANAGE TO BE ADVECTED INTO THE AREA. .LONG TERM... FEW CHANGES MADE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST WITH GRIDS ALREADY IN GOOD SHAPE. NORTH TO NORTHWEST MID-LEVEL FLOW LATE TUESDAY TO TRANSITION TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ACROSS THE REGION AS A DEEP UPPER TROUGH DROPS IN TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THIS SOUTHWEST FLOW TO PICK UP WEAK UPPER LOW LOCATED NEAR SE CA/SW AZ CURRENTLY AND OPEN IT UP AND MOVE IT ACROSS WEST TEXAS TOWARD THURSDAY AFTERNOON. WRF SUGGEST A STRONGER AND SLOWER SYSTEM...BUT THIS IS THE OUTLIER...WITH GFS (AND MOST OF ITS ENSEMBLES)...ECMWF AND CANADIAN ALL POINTING TO THE FASTER AND LESS AMPLIFIED SOLUTION. THUS...HAVE GONE WITH THE MAJORITY SOLUTION...AND MAINTAINED SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS FROM THURSDAY AFTN THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. MODEST INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR COULD PROMOTE A FEW STRONG STORMS THURSDAY. ALSO MAINTAINED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS EASTERN ZONES FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WITH POSSIBILITY OF MOISTURE PERSISTING ALONG A CONVERGENT DRYLINE. HAVE MAINTAINED DRY FORECAST AFTER FRIDAY WITH DEEP SOUTHWEST FLOW EXPECTED TO PUSH DEEPER MOISTURE TO THE EAST OF THE AREA. THERE IS SOME UNCERTAINTY TOWARD THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD (SUN/MON) WITH THE HANDLING OF THE POWERFUL UPPER LOW LOCATED SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE UPPER TIER OF THE NATION. A QUICKER EASTWARD SOLUTION MIGHT ALLOW FOR A COLD FRONT TO IMPINGING ON THE AREA...WHEREAS A SLOWER SOLUTION WOULD KEEP SOUTHWEST FLOW OVERHEAD...WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES. FOR NOW HAVE KEPT A WARM FORECAST WITH NO FRONTAL PASSAGE IN THE GRIDS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 56 80 56 82 / 30 20 10 10 TULIA 60 79 55 84 / 30 20 10 10 PLAINVIEW 59 79 58 85 / 30 20 10 10 LEVELLAND 60 80 58 85 / 30 20 10 10 LUBBOCK 61 81 60 86 / 30 20 10 10 BROWNFIELD 63 81 59 86 / 30 20 10 10 CHILDRESS 61 83 60 87 / 20 10 10 10 SPUR 63 82 58 87 / 20 20 10 10 ASPERMONT 64 83 60 89 / 20 20 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 07/20
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 533 AM CDT MON SEP 11 2006 TXZ021>044-121045- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 533 AM CDT MON SEP 11 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 719 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2006 TXZ039-040-120045- TERRY TX-YOAKUM TX- 719 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS YOAKUM AND TERRY COUNTIES... AT 717 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOKIO...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF PLAINS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. BRIEF STRONG WIND GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 82/380. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR OTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:52 UTC.
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Local farmers reported that large hail up to the size of quarters damaged cotton crops along a swath from U.S. Highway 82/380 east of Plains to the Yoakum and Terry County line northwest of Tokio. Newspaper articles reported that the hail knocked leaves off of many cotton plants.
A severe thunderstorm propagated eastward out of Yoakum County around 19:00 CST. Local farmers reported that large hail up to the size of quarters damaged cotton crops along a swath from the Yoakum and Terry County line northwest of Tokio, to five miles north of Tokio. Newspaper articles reported that the hail knocked leaves off of many cotton plants.
Multiple reports of large hail that ranged in size from nickels to quarters were received from the Needmore vicinity just before 19:30 CST. The severe storm that impacted the Needmore area was a left-moving (anticyclonic) supercell. Although reports indicated that motorists along Texas Highway 214 encountered hail, no damage was reported.
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