Isolated severe thunderstorms impacted the western portions of the west Texas South Plains during the evening hours of the 11th. Hail associated with the storms heavily damaged cotton and maize crops in northwestern Hockley County.
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Isolated severe thunderstorms impacted the western portions of the west Texas South Plains during the evening hours of the 11th. Hail associated with the storms heavily damaged cotton and maize crops in northwestern Hockley County.
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 Aug 11, 1:35 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 235 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 .SHORT TERM... THE MCV TO THE SOUTHEAST AND THE COLD FRONT LOCATED FROM WICHITA FALLS TO MARFA...WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PRIMARY AREA FOR PRECIPITATION TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. HOWEVER...DUE TO THE SLIGHT DECREASE IN CLOUD COVER...DAY TIME HEATING AND MODERATE PWATS...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND PERHAPS A THUNDERSTORM CAN NOT BE RULED OUT TONIGHT. STORM DEVELOPMENT OFF THE NEW MEXICO MOUNTAINS COULD PROPAGATE TOWARDS THE REGION...PROVIDING ANOTHER WAY TO GET PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE CWA. WILL THEREFORE KEEP IN SLIGHT CHANCES THIS EVENING...TRENDING TOWARDS BETTER CHANCES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWA. BY TUESDAY...MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE WELL OFF TO THE SOUTH AND EAST...AS THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH AMPLIFIES SLIGHTLY. WITHIN THIS UPPER LEVEL PATTERN ARE WEAK IMPULSES OF ENERGY PROGGED TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS. THIS COULD PROMOTE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND PERHAPS A THUNDERSTORMS EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. && .LONG TERM... NW FLOW ALOFT EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE FCST PERIOD. INITIALLY...GIVEN MODERATELY MOIST LOW LEVELS AND POTENTIAL FOR HIGH TEMPS AT OR A BIT ABOVE SEASONAL NORMS...EXPECT POTENTIAL FOR GENERALLY NOCTURNAL CONVECTION ROLLING SEWD OFF THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NERN NM. INHERITED SLIGHT CHC POPS FAVORING NWRN THIRD OF THE FCST AREA TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT LOOKS GOOD. DEVELOPMENT OF A CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER THE NRN/CNTL PLAINS BY FRIDAY AND PERSISTING INTO MONDAY ADDS ANOTHER DIMENSION TO THE FCST. THIS FEATURE WILL LOWER HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES WHILE ALSO HELPING PUSH ANOTHER COLD FRONT INTO THE FCST AREA. MODELS HAVE BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT IN BRINGING THIS FRONT INTO THE AREA FRIDAY AND 12Z RUNS ARE NO DIFFERENT. INCREASING RAIN CHANCES LIKELY TO ACCOMPANY THIS FRONT FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. DECENT RAIN CHANCES COULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND GIVEN PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER LOW...AN EASTERLY UPSLOPE COMPONENT TO THE LOW LEVEL FLOW AND CONTINUED NW FLOW ALOFT. COMBINATION OF PRECIP...CLOUD COVER AND FRONT COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH TEMPS THIS WEEKEND. FOR NOW WILL TREND NEAR GUIDANCE. && .AVIATION... AS RESULT OF THE SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...THE ATMOSPHERE IS RELATIVELY MOIST AS PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS ARE WITHIN MODERATE AMOUNTS. IN ADDITION TO DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES BEING RELATIVELY HIGH AND OVER NIGHT TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO BE MILD...FOG MAY OCCUR AROUND 08Z TO ABOUT 12Z. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 62 93 63 93 64 / 30 10 30 20 20 TULIA 64 92 65 92 64 / 30 10 20 20 20 PLAINVIEW 64 92 65 92 65 / 20 10 20 20 20 LEVELLAND 64 94 66 95 67 / 20 10 10 20 20 LUBBOCK 66 94 67 94 68 / 20 10 10 20 20 DENVER CITY 65 95 67 98 67 / 20 10 10 20 20 BROWNFIELD 66 95 67 97 67 / 20 10 10 20 20 CHILDRESS 67 93 68 93 69 / 20 10 10 20 20 SPUR 66 94 68 94 67 / 20 10 10 10 20 ASPERMONT 68 93 68 95 70 / 30 10 10 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 29/07/29
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1104 AM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 TXZ021>044-121615- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1104 AM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FLOODING ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE TODAY. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 540 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 TXZ028-112315- LAMB TX- 540 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS LAMB COUNTY... AT 537 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EARTH...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF MULESHOE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH BRIEF AND LOCALIZED STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 716 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 TXZ034-120045- HOCKLEY TX- 716 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS HOCKLEY COUNTY... AT 715 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEVELLAND...OR NEAR PETTIT...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:25 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Local agricultural officials reported that a severe thunderstorm produced a swath of hail that ranged from the size of pennies to quarters from just north of Pettit to south of that town. The hail stripped cotton crops and shredded maize fields along Farm to Market Road 303.
The public reported penny to nickel size hail in Bledsoe.
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