An isolated low precipitation supercell moved eastward from the plains of New Mexico, and impacted portions of southern Bailey County during the evening hours of the 29th. Local farmers reported large hail just north of the Goodland and Maple communities.
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An isolated low precipitation supercell moved eastward from the plains of New Mexico, and impacted portions of southern Bailey County during the evening hours of the 29th. Local farmers reported large hail just north of the Goodland and Maple communities.
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 29, 1:59 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 259 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 .SHORT TERM... SFC PRESSURE TROUGH HAS DEVELOPED TODAY FROM SE COLO INTO EAST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO /JUST BRUSHING NW PARMER COUNTY/ WITH DECENT CONVERGENCE ALONG IT/S AXIS. THE LOWERING PRESSURES HAVE RESULTED IN GUSTY 20 TO 30 KT S-SE WINDS ACROSS THE FA AND SOME BLOWING DUST ON THE CAPROCK DUE IN PART TO THE RECENT RAINFALL...BUT EXPECTING ONLY MINOR VSBY REDUCTION. SFC TEMPS NEAR 90F AND DEWPOINTS AROUND 50F HAVE RESULTED IN MLCAPES ABOUT 1 TO 1.5K ALONG THE SFC TROUGH...WITH STILL SOME CINH INDICATED...WITH LESS INSTABILITY/GREATER CINH AS ONE HEADS FARTHER EAST. AT 230 PM...SAT INDICATES TSTMS ARE NOW FIRING OFF THE NM MTNS...WITH A GROWING CU FIELD IN THE WESTERN PANHANDLE. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NEXT SEVERAL HRS AND MOVE NORTHEAST WITH A FEW TSTMS LIKELY BRUSHING OUR NW ZONES LATE THIS AFTN/EVE. WITH DEEP-LAYER SHEAR OF 30-40 KTS A FEW SUPERCELLS ARE POSSIBLE. HIGH TEMP/DEWPOINT SPREADS POINT TO LARGE HAIL/DAMAGING WIND THREAT FROM THE STRONGER STORMS. STORMS SHOULD BE DIURNALLY DRIVEN...DIMINISHING THIS EVENING WITH GRADUALLY CLEARING SKIES OVERNIGHT. UPPER TROUGH OVER THE ROCKIES TODAY MOVES OUT INTO THE PLAINS ON FRIDAY AND OUR SFC WINDS SHOULD VEER TO THE SW AS THE SFC TROUGH SHIFTS EAST. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A DRYLINE TO DEVELOP AND SURGE EAST ACROSS OUR NRN ZONES...TRAILING BACK TO THE WEST TOWARD THE PERMIAN BASIN. DEEP MIXING WILL CREATE A A VERY DRY AND HOT AIRMASS WEST OF THE DRYLINE...HOWEVER THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN CAPPED SOUTH OF ABOUT I-40 AS HEIGHTS INCREASE SLIGHTLY ACROSS TEXAS. .LONG TERM... STOUT HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE TO REMAIN DOMINANT OVER WEST TEXAS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH UNSEASONABLY HOT TEMPERATURES EXPECTED. A PATTERN MORE TYPICAL OF LATE JUNE OR JULY IS EXPECTED TO SETUP OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS REGION CAPPING CONVECTIVE CHANCES TO ALL BUT PERHAPS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS/EXTREME SOUTHWEST PANHANDLE. WARMING MID LEVEL TEMPS AND RISING HEIGHTS WILL LIKELY BOOST TEMPERATURES INTO THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 90S WITH LOWER 100S EXPECTED FROM THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS EAST THROUGH THE ROLLING PLAINS. MORNING RUN OF THE MEX GUIDANCE FOR KLBB INDICATING A FOUR DAY STRETCH OF LOWER 100 DEGREE TEMPERATURES. HAVE TRENDED HIGHS SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST. WEAK COLD FRONT STILL EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS DURING SATURDAY BUT POSES A LOW CONCERN FOR MUCH SOUTHWARD PROGRESSION AND CONVECTIVE INITIATION GIVEN WARM MID LEVEL TEMPS. UPPER RIDGE PROGGED BY THE GFS AND ECMWF TO WEAKEN BY NEXT TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY TIMEFRAME WITH A GRADUAL INCREASE IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT OVER WEST TEXAS. UPPER LEVEL ENERGY IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN AND EJECT NORTHEAST TOWARD THE REGION NEXT WEDNESDAY. THIS PATTERN COMBINED WITH EARLY JUNE SEVERE WEATHER CLIMATOLOGY SUGGESTS AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR CONVECTION. EVEN THOUGH IT IS DAY 7...HAVE INCREASED POPS A CATEGORY. TOO FAR OUT TO PINPOINT ANY SPECIFIC LOCATION ATTM. THE SOUTHWEST FLOW/UPPER TROUGH TO BRING A SLIGHT COOL DOWN BUT TEMPS LIKELY REMAINING NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE CLIMO THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. KW && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 60 93 57 90 60 / 20 0 0 0 10 TULIA 63 96 62 95 64 / 10 0 10 0 10 PLAINVIEW 62 95 62 96 65 / 10 0 10 0 10 LEVELLAND 63 97 63 97 64 / 10 0 0 0 10 LUBBOCK 65 97 66 98 67 / 10 0 10 0 10 DENVER CITY 65 99 64 100 64 / 10 0 0 0 10 BROWNFIELD 65 98 64 99 64 / 10 0 10 0 10 CHILDRESS 68 98 69 100 70 / 10 0 10 10 10 SPUR 65 97 67 101 68 / 10 0 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 69 98 69 101 70 / 10 0 10 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 33/17
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1132 AM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 TXZ021>044-301645- 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 THU MAY 29 2008 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 EVENING...GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR MORTON TO NEAR DIMMITT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE EXTENDING FROM THE WESTERN PANHANDLES INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 701 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 TXZ021-300030- PARMER TX- 701 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING PARMER COUNTY... AT 557 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED EAST OF GRADY NEW MEXICO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE CLOSE TO FAR NORTHWESTERN PARMER COUNTY DURING BY 730 PM CDT. STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM 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 714 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 TXZ027-033-300100- BAILEY TX-COCHRAN TX- 714 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING COCHRAN AND BAILEY COUNTIES... AT 709 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DORA NEW MEXICO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY AND BAILEY COUNTY AS EARLY AS 745 PM TO 800 PM CDT. BRIEF...STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE IN ADVANCE OF THIS STORM...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS MAY INCREASE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS 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 Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:13 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Local farmers reported hail up to three-quarters of an inch in diameter northwest of Maple. The hail resulted in no agricultural damage since crops were recently planted, and had not yet sprouted.
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