Scattered thunderstorms developed along a stalled surface boundary over the extreme southwestern Panhandle during the late afternoon hours of the 16th. A few of these initial storms displayed supercellular characteristics, but remained over open range land and no reports of severe weather were received.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed along a stalled surface boundary over the extreme southwestern Panhandle during the late afternoon hours of the 16th. A few of these initial storms displayed supercellular characteristics, but remained over open range land and no reports of severe weather were received. Later in the evening, the activity grew up-scale and spread east and southeastward over the northern South Plains. A small complex of storms resulted in an intermittent swath of damaging winds over portions of Hale and Floyd 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 Aug 16, 5:48 PM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 648 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 .UPDATE... GRIDS APPEAR TO HAVE THE CURRENT SCATTERED CONVECTION WELL IN HAND... WITH THE HIGHEST POPS OVER THE NW ZONES WERE COVERAGE IS CURRENTLY THE BEST. SEVERAL SMALL-SCALE/SHALLOW SUPERCELL STRUCTURES WERE OBSERVED BOTH VIA RADAR AND ONLINE CHASER WEB CAMS...INCLUDING AN INTENSE 105 KT LOW-LEVEL MESOCYCLONE/TORNADO VORTEX IN NORTHEASTERN CASTRO COUNTY. THE PROSPECTS FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE ON THE DECREASE AS STORM INTERACTIONS INCREASE ALONG/IN PROXIMITY TO THE NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST ORIENTED MESOSCALE BOUNDARY AND AS DEEP LAYER /0-6KM/ SHEAR DECREASES FROM EARLIER VALUES AROUND 30 KT TO PROGGED VALUES AROUND 15-20KT BY 03Z. && .AVIATION... LITTLE TO NO CHANGE TO THE CURRENT TAFS. ONGOING THUNDER AT KCDS WARRANTED THE INTRODUCTION OF A TEMPO FOR LIGHT/LOW VFR RESTRICTIONS DUE TO CONVECTION. THE LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY AND CONVECTION APPEARS AS IF IT WILL LIKELY REMAIN NORTH OF THE KLBB TERMINAL...BUT THIS WILL WARRANT CLOSE MONITORING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 341 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010/ SHORT TERM... THE MAIN FORECAST CONCERN FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WILL BE PRECIPITATION CHANCES ACROSS THE AREA. PRESENTLY...MOST OF THE CLOUD COVER FROM THIS MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON HAS FINALLY DISSIPATED AND MOVED OFF TO THE NORTH... ALLOWING FOR GOOD SOLAR HEATING FOR THE PAST FEW HOURS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. THE REMNANT COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT STALLED OUT SOUTH OF THE LUB CWA THIS MORNING HAS DRIFTED BACK TO THE NORTH...AND IS NOW CLIPPING THE EXTREME SOUTHERN ZONES. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO POP-UP ACROSS ALONG THIS BOUNDARY ACROSS THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS/BIG COUNTRY. IN ADDITION...A FEW OTHER DIFFUSE BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION WERE NOTED ACROSS THE AREA. GIVEN THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA AND THE AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARIES...ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...DESPITE A LACK OF ANY REAL SUBSTANTIAL FORCING. AT THIS TIME...IT IS TOUGH TO PINPOINT EXACTLY WHICH AREA MAY BE MOST FAVORED. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT AND ALONG ANY RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES LINGERING ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS AND SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE. HOWEVER...MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW CONVECTIVE SIGNALS FORMING ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND SPREADING INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND THE WESTERN/NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THUS...HAVE EXPANDED CHANCE POPS THROUGH 06Z AND MENTIONABLE POPS BETWEEN 06-12Z ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA. MODEL DATA AND CURRENT OBSERVATIONS SHOW CAPE VALUES BETWEEN 1000-2000 J/KG...THOUGH BULK SHEAR VALUES AREA NOT AS APPRECIABLE. THUS...AM EXPECTING THAT MOST OF THE STORMS WILL BE PULSE-TYPE AND FAIRLY UNORGANIZED. GIVEN THE INVERTED-V SOUNDING PROFILES... DAMAGING WINDS GUSTS...ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. FOR TUESDAY...HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGHOUT THE MORNING TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY LINGERING NOCTURNAL CONVECTION...AS WELL AS ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT MAY FORM OFF OF LINGERING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. A SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS PROGGED TO DROP THROUGH THE AREA ON TUESDAY... PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. LONG TERM... THE MAIN FOCUS FOR THE LONG TERM IS THE CHANCE FOR PRECIP TUESDAY EVENING. AN MCS TYPE SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE DEVELOPED BY ALL OF THE OPERATIONAL MODELS IN RESPONSE TO THE TROUGH AXIS OVER CENTRAL KS. THIS TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO ACCELERATE EASTWARD TUESDAY AFTERNOON WHICH WILL CREATE SOUTHERLY 500 MB STEERING FLOW FOR THIS SYSTEM. THE MODELS AGREE WELL WITH THE SOUTHERN MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM AS WELL AS SWWRD EXPANSION ALONG THE TROUGH AXIS. THE ONLY DISCREPANCY APPEARS TO BE THE TIMING OF THIS ACTIVITY REACHING THE CWA. NAM DEPICTS THIS ACTIVITY REACHING THE NORTHERN ZONES BY 18Z TUESDAY WHERE GEM/GFS/SREF/ECWMF VARY FROM 21Z TUESDAY TO 03Z WEDNESDAY. HAVE DECIDED TO UPGRADE TO CHC POPS IN THE NORTHEAST ZONES WITH GRADUAL SLGT CHC FOR THE REST OF THE CWA TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. BRIEF UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL RETURN AS THIS TROUGH MOVES EAST ACROSS THE MIDWEST. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A DAY OR TWO OF WARMING AND DRYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. MOS GUIDANCE HAS HIGHS IN THE UPPER 90S FOR LBB BY WEDNESDAY WITH ONLY A SLIGHT COOLING BY THE WEEKEND IN RESPONSE TO ANOTHER APPROACHING TROUGH. MODELS BEGIN TO DEVIATE SUBSTANTIALLY BEYOND FRIDAY IN PRECIP CHANCES AS WELL AS UPPER LEVEL FLOW ORIENTATION. GEM/GFS DOES BREAK OUT PRECIP ALONG THE TROUGH AXIS AND COLD FRONT PRODUCED BY IT IN A VERY SIMILAR FASHION TO THAT OF TUESDAY EVENING. DGEX KEEPS THE HIGH PRESSURE DOMINANT AND INTENSE OVER THE WEEKEND AND ECMWF IS GOING FOR A MORE BROAD HIGH. GIVEN THIS DISCREPANCY...DO NOT FEEL CONFIDENT ENOUGH WITH PRECIP PROBABILITY TO WARRANT MENTIONABLE POPS FOR THIS TIME. TB/03 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 64 92 66 95 67 / 40 30 20 10 10 TULIA 67 92 66 96 68 / 40 30 20 10 0 PLAINVIEW 68 93 66 96 68 / 40 20 20 10 10 LEVELLAND 69 93 68 96 69 / 30 20 20 10 10 LUBBOCK 70 95 68 95 70 / 40 20 20 10 10 DENVER CITY 69 96 69 96 69 / 30 20 20 10 10 BROWNFIELD 70 95 69 97 70 / 30 20 20 10 10 CHILDRESS 71 98 73 100 73 / 40 20 30 10 0 SPUR 72 95 71 98 73 / 40 20 20 10 0 ASPERMONT 74 98 74 100 75 / 30 20 20 10 0 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 20
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 315 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ021>044-172015- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 315 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. AN ISOLATED PULSE-TYPE SEVERE STORM OR TWO MAY BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY WITH STRONG WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ON TUESDAY ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. SOME STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 900 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ024-025-030-031-170230- BRISCOE-FLOYD-HALL-MOTLEY- 900 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FLOYD...MOTLEY...HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES... AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUITAQUE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND QUITAQUE...CAPROCK CANYONS STATE PARK...TURKEY AND FLOMOT. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 55 MPH...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 908 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ028-034-170230- HOCKLEY-LAMB- 908 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HOCKLEY AND LAMB COUNTIES... AT 903 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST LAMB AND EXTREME NORTHWEST HOCKLEY COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND AMHERST...FIELDTON...PEP... LITTLEFIELD AND ANTON. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 930 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ024-025-030-031-170300- BRISCOE-FLOYD-HALL-MOTLEY- 930 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FLOYD...MOTLEY...HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES... AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF QUITAQUE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND QUITAQUE...TURKEY...FLOMOT AND NORTHFIELD. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 933 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ029-035-170300- HALE-LUBBOCK- 933 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN LUBBOCK AND SOUTHEAST HALE COUNTIES... AT 929 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ABERNATHY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND ABERNATHY AND PETERSBURG. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 938 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ028-034-170300- HOCKLEY-LAMB- 938 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HOCKLEY AND LAMB COUNTIES... AT 933 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLEFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND LITTLEFIELD...WHITHARRAL AND ANTON. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 55 MPH...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1000 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 TXZ024-025-028>031-034-035-170330- BRISCOE-FLOYD-HALE-HALL-HOCKLEY-LAMB-LUBBOCK-MOTLEY- 1000 PM CDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK...LAMB... HALE...FLOYD...MOTLEY...HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES... AT 954 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR TURKEY TO NEAR FLOYDADA TO ABERNATHY TO WEST OF WHITHARRAL. THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS BROKEN LINE OF STRONG STORMS. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:59 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site near Turkey measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph at 21:00 CST. No damage was reported.
A damage survey conducted by meteorologists from the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet revealed a swath of damage in agricultural fields south of Floydada and east of Texas Highway 207. Large corn stocks were completely blown down by thunderstorm winds.
Thunderstorm winds caused significant damage to a farmstead west of Abernathy around 22:10 CST. At least three light weight metal barns were heavily damaged or destroyed. By 22:29 CST, the public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 60 mph in Abernathy.
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