A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms moved eastward out of the plains of New Mexico and progressed across the western and central South Plains during the evening hours of the 3rd. One storm within the complex produced large hail over Yoakum County.
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A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms moved eastward out of the plains of New Mexico and progressed across the western and central South Plains during the evening hours of the 3rd. One storm within the complex produced large hail over Yoakum County. The complex of storms produced heavy rainfall that resulted in minor street flooding in Terry and Lubbock Counties.
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 3, 1:32 PM CST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 232 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 .SHORT TERM... SIMILAR SITUATION TODAY AS YESTERDAY WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT COMPLIMENTS OF AN UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN AND A RIDGE JUST WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. A FAIRLY STRONG SHORTWAVE SEEN ON SATELLITE...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST FROM SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO COMBINED WITH VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND A COUPLE OF SURFACE BOUNDARIES AROUND THE REGION TO AID IN THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING DURING THE AFTERNOON AND MOVING EASTWARD DURING THE NIGHT AS AN MCS. THERE ARE ALSO A COUPLE OF WEAKER DISTURBANCE EMBEDDED IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL WYOMING AND COLORADO...THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING OVER THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS...THUS ANOTHER MCS MAY DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO/NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS THAT MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT MAY BECOME SEVERE. EXPECT MONDAY TO BE SIMILAR TO TODAY WITH PRECIPITATION MOVING EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY EARLY MORNING... THEN CONVECTION AGAIN DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NEW MEXICO LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. .LONG TERM... PATTERN CHANGE WILL BE ONGOING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD MONDAY NIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN CONUS AND GREAT BASIN TRANSLATES EASTWARD...WITH RIDGE AXIS APPROACHING THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE EARLY TUESDAY. STILL SHOULD BE ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EVOLVING UPSCALE INTO A MESOSCALE COMPLEX DURING THE LATE EVENING HOURS MONDAY. MODELS HAVE BEEN VERY CONSISTENT FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS WITH BRINGING AN MCS SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS LATE MONDAY INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. THIS SCENARIO SEEMS REASONABLE GIVEN UPPER FLOW AND INITIATION ONCE AGAIN ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THUS WILL UP POPS TO LIKELY ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL ZONES MONDAY NIGHT. CANNOT RULE OUT AT LEAST ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY BUT AS UPPER RIDGE EDGES FARTHER EASTWARD...MID LEVEL WARMING AND DECREASING UPPER SUPPORT MAY MAKE CONVECTIVE INITIATION MORE DIFFICULT. UPPER LOW MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL BEGIN TO SQUASH RIDGE WEDNESDAY THUS ONGOING FORECAST OF VERY WARM TEMPERATURES AND VERY LOW POPS LOOKS GOOD. TEMPS LIKELY TO PUSH WELL INTO THE 90S MOST AREAS WEDNESDAY WITH STRONG DOWNSLOPE WARMING. WITH TIGHTENING LOW TO MID LEVEL PRESSURE GRADIENT AND LEE SIDE SURFACE LOW EXTENDING SOUTH FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS...WILL LIKELY BECOME BREEZY WITH SW WINDS DURING THE AFTERNOON ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SOUTHERN STREAM UPPER TROUGH MAY APPROACH THE AREA BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...ALONG WITH POSSIBLE FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD OUT OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THUS SLIGHT CHANCE POPS WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... FOR KLBB AND KCDS...THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE NIGHT WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN 02Z AND 06Z OVER KLBB AND BETWEEN 04 AND 08Z AT KCDS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 56 82 57 87 63 / 60 30 70 20 20 TULIA 57 82 59 88 63 / 60 20 50 20 20 PLAINVIEW 58 83 60 88 66 / 60 20 60 20 20 LEVELLAND 58 83 60 90 65 / 60 30 70 20 20 LUBBOCK 59 84 62 90 66 / 60 20 60 20 20 BROWNFIELD 59 84 61 91 65 / 60 30 70 20 20 CHILDRESS 61 86 61 92 68 / 70 20 20 20 20 SPUR 60 84 63 92 67 / 70 20 50 20 20 ASPERMONT 63 87 65 90 69 / 70 20 40 20 20 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 08/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1132 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 TXZ021>044-041645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1132 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ROLLING PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON AS A RESULT OF STRONG SURFACE HEATING AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. INITIAL STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL TEND TO FAVOR OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH STORMS EVENTUALLY EVOLVING INTO A SOUTHEASTWARD MOVING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX DURING THE EVENING HOURS. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. A FEW TORNADOES MAY ALSO OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...PARTICULARLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MORTON TO LUBBOCK TO JAYTON. FLOODING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...PARTICULARLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WILL MOVE SLOWLY WHICH COULD RESULT IN LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH LATE THIS EVENING AS THE STORMS INCREASE IN SPEED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS LITTLE CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN IS ANTICIPATED. ONCE AGAIN...LOCATIONS MOST FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DETERMINED BY RESIDUAL SURFACE BOUNDARIES THAT RESULT FROM STORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY AND AGAIN ON MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND SPOTTER GROUPS WILL LIKELY BE ACTIVATED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JW
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 337 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 TXZ033-032100- COCHRAN TX- 337 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS COCHRAN COUNTY... AT 335 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
531 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2007
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0408 AM TSTM WND GST 14 ENE PADUCAH 34.09N 100.08W
06/03/2007 E60 MPH COTTLE TX EMERGENCY MNGR
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MCSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 658 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 TXZ039-040030- YOAKUM TX- 658 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING YOAKUM COUNTY... AT 655 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN YOAKUM COUNTY...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY SPREAD EASTWARD TOWARD DENVER CITY AND PLAINS. 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.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 718 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 TXZ033-040100- COCHRAN TX- 718 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING COCHRAN COUNTY... AT 617 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BLEDSOE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 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 833 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 TXZ021-027-040200- PARMER TX-BAILEY TX- 833 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO BAILEY AND PARMER COUNTIES... AT 831 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BOVINA TO JUST WEST OF WEST CAMP...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:40 UTC.
2 flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Terry County Emergency Management Office reported large hail up to the size of nickels in northeastern Yoakum County.
Heavy rainfall resulted in minor flooding along several roadways in central and eastern Terry County, including Farm to Market Roads 403 and 168, and County Road 1076. No reports of serious travel problems were received.
|The broadcast media reported standing water that covered portions of 98th Street during the late evening hours of the 3rd. The water accumulated in a construction zone as heavy rainfall fell over the southern portions of Lubbock. At least one vehicle became stranded in the flood waters.
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