Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms developed over the west Texas South Plains during the afternoon and evening hours of the 8th. The most significant severe weather occurred in association with a supercell thunderstorm that tracked over portions of Briscoe and Hall Counties.
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Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms developed over the west Texas South Plains during the afternoon and evening hours of the 8th. The most significant severe weather occurred in association with a supercell thunderstorm that tracked over portions of Briscoe and Hall Counties. Giant baseball size hail and at least one brief tornado accompanied the storm. Elsewhere, storms produced large hail up to the size of golf balls over the northern and western South Plains.
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 8, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 215 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 .SHORT TERM... FOCUS OF THE FORECAST WAS ON CONVECTIVE CHANCES LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AS OF 19Z...A COLD FRONT STRETCHED ROUGHLY ALONG A HEREFORD TO AMARILLO TO CANADIAN LINE. THIS FRONT HAD BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY...EXCEPT ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE...WHERE IT WAS STILL EDGING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THE FRONT WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY OR RETREAT NORTHWARD SLIGHTLY THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON...BEFORE MAKING RENEWED PROGRESS SOUTHWARD OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. ADDITIONALLY...A DRYLINE EXTENDED SOUTH OF THE FRONT FROM THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT CONVECTION WILL INITIALLY DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON...WITH MORE ISOLATED ACTIVITY POSSIBLE ALONG THE DRYLINE. GIVEN CURRENT ML CAPES OF 1500-2000 J/KG SOUTH OF THE FRONT AND EAST OF THE DRYLINE AND ADEQUATE DEEP LAYER SHEAR...ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. ADDITIONALLY...A TROUGH EXTENDING SOUTHWARD FROM AN UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR THE ND/MT/CANADA BORDERS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD...WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY ADVANCING THROUGH ITS BASE FROM NEAR THE FOUR CORNER CURRENTLY INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS BY EARLY MONDAY. THE COMBINATION OF THE INCREASING UPPER SUPPORT AND STRENGTHENING LLJ SHOULD HELP THE ACTIVITY THAT DEVELOPS ALONG THE COLD FRONT TO GROW UPSCALE INTO A COMPLEX ACROSS THE EASTERN PANHANDLES TONIGHT. A BULK OF THE COMPLEX WILL LIKELY TRANSLATE EASTWARD INTO OK...BUT THE TAIL END WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BUILD SSE INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS /SUPPORTED BY THE PROGGED CORFIDI VECTORS/...BRINGING WITH IT THE THREAT OF STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES MUCH OF THE DAY MONDAY IN ADVANCE OF THE PASSING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD PUSH THROUGH THE ENTIRE CWA DURING THE MORNING HOURS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE MILD AGAIN TONIGHT...THOUGH COOLER ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA THAN WHAT WE HAVE SEEN THE LAST COUPLE OF NIGHTS WITH THE EXPECTED PRECIPITATION AND FRONTAL PASSAGE BEFORE DAWN. HIGHS MONDAY WILL BE TRICKY...WITH THE AREAL COVERAGE AND DURATION OF PRECIPITATION AND CLOUD COVER TO DICTATE THE FINAL NUMBERS. HAVE GONE WITH THE LOW SIDE OF GUIDANCE ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES WHERE A GREATER LIKELIHOOD OF CLOUDS/PRECIP EXISTS....WITH A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD APPROACH FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. .LONG TERM... NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED THIS AFTN. PRECIP CHANCES SHIFT SWD OUT OF THE AREA BY LATE MONDAY EVENING THEN RETURN FLOW SETS UP ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY. INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ON THE RETURN FLOW TO YIELD A WEAKLY CAPPED ENVIRONMENT...BUT LITTLE LOW LEVEL FOCUS OR MID/UPPER LEVEL FORCING WILL KEEP POPS VERY LOW. DRYLINE TO SHARPEN AND SHIFT EWD TOWARD THE ERN EDGE OF THE CAPROCK WEDNESDAY AFTN AS SHORT WAVE TROUGH ROTATES ONTO THE CNTL/NRN PLAINS AND WILL JUSTIFY KEEPING SMALL AREA OF SLIGHT CHC POPS IN THE GRIDS. IWLL CONTINUE WITH GFS TIMING FOR COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE THURSDAY. STRENGTH OF CAP AND QUALITY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE STILL A BIG QUESTION AND UNCERTAINTIES WITH THESE FACTORS WILL KEEP POPS BELOW MENTIONABLE LEVELS WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. RETURN FLOW PROGGED FOR NEXT WEEKEND...ALTHOUGH PRELIMINARY INDICATIONS SUGGEST GRADIENT WILL NOT BE AS TIGHT AS OF LATE WHILE CAP MAY NOT BE AS STRONG. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 60 83 56 92 65 / 30 10 10 10 10 TULIA 60 79 57 92 67 / 40 20 10 10 10 PLAINVIEW 64 80 59 90 67 / 40 20 10 10 10 LEVELLAND 65 84 60 95 68 / 20 10 10 10 10 LUBBOCK 68 83 62 93 70 / 20 20 10 10 10 DENVER CITY 69 91 62 95 68 / 20 10 10 10 10 BROWNFIELD 70 85 62 95 69 / 20 10 10 10 10 CHILDRESS 69 80 60 93 71 / 50 50 10 10 10 SPUR 69 79 62 92 71 / 30 30 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 74 82 63 93 72 / 30 30 20 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 23/07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1122 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 TXZ021>044-091630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1122 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. THE MAIN THREAT AREA GENERALLY RUNS NORTH OF A LINE FROM FRIONA...TO LITTLEFIELD...TO RALLS TO GUTHRIE. SOUTH OF THIS LINE THERE IS A MORE ISOLATED THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AS A FEW STORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG A DRYLINE NEAR THE TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO BORDER. FARTHER NORTH...MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT IN THE CENTRAL TO SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...THEN POSSIBLY RETREAT NORTHWARD SLIGHTLY. MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH ADEQUATE SHEAR WILL CAUSE SOME OF THE STORMS TO BE SEVERE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY LARGE HAIL. OVERNIGHT...A COMPLEX OF STORMS MAY MOVE SOUTH THROUGH THE ROLLING PLAINS...MAINLY BRINGING THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ASIDE FROM THE POTENTIAL COMPLEX OF STORMS ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS EARLY MONDAY MORNING...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 609 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 TXZ022>024-028-029-082345- CASTRO TX-SWISHER TX-BRISCOE TX-HALE TX-LAMB TX- 609 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS LAMB...HALE...BRISCOE...SWISHER AND CASTRO COUNTIES... AT 605 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR OLTON...TO SOUTH OF TULIA...TO NEAR SILVERTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING RAPIDLY AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 639 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 TXZ027-033-090015- BAILEY TX-COCHRAN TX- 639 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS NORTHERN COCHRAN AND SOUTHERN BAILEY COUNTIES... AT 634 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF MAPLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF MORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH AND PEA SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KW
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 UTC.
9 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Reports of large hail that ranged in size from half dollars to golf balls were relayed by the broadcast media. The hail reportedly fell north of the Claytonville community, near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2301 and Texas Highway 86. No damage was reported.
Nickel size hail was reported at MacKenzie Reservoir. The hail was reportedly accompanied by strong wind gusts, but no wind speed estimate was reported.
A second severe storm developed and impacted the MacKenzie Reservoir, less than half an hour after a severe storm brought nickel size hail and strong winds. The second storm produced quarter size hail at a local marina, as reported by the public.
The public reported penny size hail in Amherst.
Half dollar size hail was reported by the public near Farm to Market Road 256 in northeastern Briscoe County.
A local broadcast media storm chaser encountered baseball size hail near the intersection of Texas Highway 70 and Farm to Market Road 256 just before 20:15 CST. The storm chaser additionally observed a finger-shaped funnel cloud which developed within a pronounced wall cloud south of that intersection, but observations of the funnel were reportedly limited due to vehicle damages sustained by the ongoing hail.
The Turkey Fire Department observed a brief tornado near the Briscoe and Hall County line. The tornado remained in open country west of Texas Highway 70, and south of Farm to Market Road 256. No damage was reported.
Local emergency management officials reported half dollar size hail at the intersection of U.S. Highway 385 and Farm to Market Road 403 near Brownfield.
Baseball size hail caused roof and automobile damage at a ranch in central Hall County.
A trained storm spotter reported half dollar size hail that was accompanied by strong thunderstorm wind gusts. No damages, however, were reported and a broadcast media schoolnet weather station in Happy did not record severe gusts.
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