Thunderstorms developed along and east of a dryline over the west Texas South Plains and Rolling Plains during the afternoon and evening hours on the 13th. Several of the storms became severe and produced large hail up to the size of golfballs and wind gusts up to 68 mph.
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Thunderstorms developed along and east of a dryline over the west Texas South Plains and Rolling Plains during the afternoon and evening hours on the 13th. Several of the storms became severe and produced large hail up to the size of golfballs and wind gusts up to 68 mph.
During the late evening hours, thunderstorms congealed into a small convective complex over the extreme southern Panhandle and the northern Rolling Plains. These storms produced severe wind gusts in Childress and Hall counties. A particularly intense downburst was sampled by the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet near Turkey around 23:30 CST, with a peak wind gust of 101 mph. These winds destroyed a trailer home and heavily damaged a large metal barn and utilities.
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 13, 2:22 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 322 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 .SHORT TERM... VERY LITTLE CHANGE IN THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN...AS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS REMAINED SANDWICHED BETWEEN AN UA RIDGE ACROSS THE SE CONUS AND A NE PROPAGATING UA TROUGH ACROSS FAR NE UTAH THUS INDUCING A SHARPENED SW FLOW ALOFT. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE PRIMARY FOCUS FOR THE SHORT TERM PERIOD AS THE NE EJECTING UA TROUGH WILL PROVIDE FOR A SLIGHT SYNOPTIC LIFT INCREASE...ALTHOUGH MODEL SOUNDINGS FAVOR AREAS NORTH OF THE CWA. THUS...MESO-SCALE FEATURES ACROSS THE CWA WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION INITIATION. THE DRYLINE HAS PROPAGATED EAST FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND SETTLED NEAR A HAPPY TO FLOYDADA TO BROWNFIELD LINE...THANKS TO THE ADDED PUSH OF THE AFOREMENTIONED UA TROUGH. THE DIAGONALLY QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT HAS PROGRESSED VERY LITTLE THROUGH THE DAY TODAY...WITH ONLY A SLIGHT SOUTHWARD SHIFT ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO/TEXAS PANHANDLE /NEAR VEGA TX/. THUS...MODEL GUIDANCE HAS HINTED AT THIS POSSIBILITY ALTHOUGH DISAGREEMENT REMAINS REGARDING THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE FROPA...WITH THE NAM AND RUC SOLUTIONS GRASPING THE BEST HANDLE OF THE TRUE/CURRENT LOCATION OF THE FRONT VERSUS THE GFS AND ECMWF SLOWER AND MORE NORTHERN FROPA DISTRIBUTION. THUS...WILL LEAN TOWARDS THE NAM SOLUTION IN REGARDS TO THE PROGGED FROPA THROUGHOUT THE SHORT TERM FORECAST. 20Z RADAR ANALYSIS DISPLAYED CONVECTION ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES...WITH ISOLATED CONVECTION ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS....WHICH IS IN RELATION TO THE FRONT AND DRYLINE RESPECTIVELY. STORMS ALONG THE DRYLINE CAN QUICKLY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE AS CAPE VALUES NEAR 3000 J/KG...LIFTED INDICES APPROACH -9 C AND STEEP LAPSE ALONG/EAST OF THE DRYLINE LEADS TO DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. IF THE FRONT QUICKLY ADVANCES FARTHER SOUTH LATER THIS AFTERNOON THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT...THAN AN ISOLATED THREAT OF TORNADOES CAN NOT BE RULED OUT ESPECIALLY WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR OF 30-40 KTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN/NW ZONES NEAR THE TRIPLE POINT/. STORM EVOLUTION TONIGHT WILL HIGHLY DEPEND ON WHERE THE FRONT AND DRYLINE SETTLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. IF FOLLOWING THE NAM SOLUTION IT HAS THE DRYLINE BULGING ACROSS THE WESTERN/NORTHWESTERN ZONES...WITH THE FRONT STEADILY PROGRESSING SOUTHWARD AND CROSSING THE NORTHWESTERN ZONES LATE TONIGHT. THUS CONVECTION INITIATION HAS BEEN CONFINED TO THE FROPA WITH LITTLE TO NO QPF DISPLAYED NEAR THE DRYLINE. THIS IS LIKELY DISPLAYED BECAUSE OF AN EXPECTED CAPPING INVERSION TO HOLD WHICH THUS FAR IS THE CASE PER CURRENT RADAR ANALYSIS AS CONVECTION HAS BEEN CONFINED TO THE COOL SIDE OF THE FRONT. HOWEVER...WILL AT LEAST MAINTAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FARTHER SOUTH ALONG THE DRYLINE WHICH IS VALID ATTM. MONDAY MORNING...THE NAM LIMITS PRECIP CHANCES TO THE NORTH/NORTHEAST ZONES AS THE 30-35 KT LLJ VEERS OVER NIGHT TONIGHT...BUT THE GFS CONTINUED TO DISPLAY GENERALLY LIGHT QPF FARTHER SOUTH. CAN UNDERSTAND BOTH PROGGED PRECIP EVOLUTIONS AS THE NAM BELIEVES LOW TO MID LEVEL CONVERGENCE IS NOT ENOUGH TO BREAK THE NOCTURNAL INVERSION...WHEREAS THE GFS FEELS IT IS SUFFICIENT. WILL HOWEVER MAINTAIN A BASIC SLIGHT CHANCE POPS DURING THE AFOREMENTIONED TIME-FRAME. A GENERAL CONSENSUS AMONGST MODELS EXHIBITING THE FROPA PUNCHING THROUGH THE CWA AND BECOMING QUASI-STATIONARY SOMEWHERE ALONG THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS MONDAY AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON WHERE THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE FRONT WILL BE...THE ABOVE LOCATIONS /ESPECIALLY THE MORE SOUTHERN LOCATION/ ARE PRIME FOR THE CWA TO SEE MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIP...BUT WITH THE ADDED POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED MODERATE RAINFALL AS PWATS INCREASE TO NEAR 1.70 INCHES. IF THE FRONT BECOMES MORE STATIONARY THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT...WILL DEFINITELY HAVE TO CONSIDER THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE/TORNADO THREAT AS LOW-LEVEL VEERING OF WINDS APPEARS ADEQUATE ALONG THE FRONT /OF COURSE SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL DEPEND ON HOW FAR SOUTH THE FRONT WILL BE LOCATED WHERE LOCALES ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL SEE BEST CHANCES/.WILL CONTINUE TO ANALYZE LATER MODEL RUNS IN ORDER TO GET A CLEAR AND MORE DEFINED CONSENSUS AMONGST MODELS REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRONT. WITH EXPECTED CLOUD AND RAINFALL...TEMPS WILL BE ON THE COOL SIDE MONDAY...WITH UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES AND MID TO UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S SOUTHEAST. && .LONG TERM... SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WITH PIECES OF ENERGY CONTINUING TO BRUSH BY JUST NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF THE AREA. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD BE ADVANCING THROUGH OR OUT OF SOUTHERN ZONES MONDAY NIGHT...AND THEN LIFTING BACK NORTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA TUESDAY. MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO OVER-RUN THIS BOUNDARY ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS. MONDAY NIGHT STILL SEEMS TO OFFER THE MOST CONSISTENT SIGNALS FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER OUR AREA...ENOUGH SO TO INCREASE MENTION SLIGHTLY DURING THE NIGHT. TUESDAY THUNDER CHANCES STILL APPEAR TO BE SOMEWHAT DEPENDENT...HOWEVER...ON ACTIVITY THE PREVIOUS NIGHT AND THE EVENTUAL PUSH OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY. GIVEN UNCERTAINTIES AND MESO-SCALE DOMINANCE THIS WILL CONTINUE TO REQUIRE MAINTAINING A GENERAL LOW CHANCE OF THUNDER ON TUESDAY. SHEAR AND POSSIBLE ENERGY LEVELS SEEM CAPABLE OF A SEVERE THREAT BOTH MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...BUT NOT A CERTAINTY AT THIS POINT ESPECIALLY IF THERE IS A LARGE AMOUNT OF RAIN COOLING THAT OCCURS MONDAY NIGHT. UPPER RIDGE SHOULD BE ELONGATING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BY MID-WEEK SHUNTING THE DEEP MOISTURE FLOW A BIT FURTHER WEST INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO BRUSHING OUR WESTERN OR NORTHWEST ZONES. HEIGHTS SHOULD BUILD ENOUGH BY LATE IN THE WEEK TO END THUNDER MENTION...BUT WILL RETAIN A LOW CHANCE FOR A COUPLE EVENINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK NEAR THE NEW MEXICO BORDER AS IN PREVIOUS FORECAST. TEMPERATURES WILL TREND WARMER AGAIN AS INDICATED EARLIER. RMCQUEEN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 58 80 58 84 62 / 30 30 40 30 20 TULIA 63 85 61 83 63 / 30 30 50 30 20 PLAINVIEW 65 81 62 83 65 / 30 40 50 30 20 LEVELLAND 66 82 63 86 65 / 30 40 40 30 20 LUBBOCK 68 86 65 86 67 / 30 40 50 30 20 DENVER CITY 67 88 63 89 66 / 20 40 40 30 20 BROWNFIELD 68 89 65 88 66 / 30 40 50 30 20 CHILDRESS 69 86 65 86 68 / 30 40 60 30 20 SPUR 70 87 68 88 68 / 30 40 60 30 20 ASPERMONT 72 94 69 93 70 / 20 30 60 30 20 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 29/05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1134 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 TXZ021>044-141645- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1134 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG A DRYLINE ACROSS THE WESTERN OR CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ANY STORMS THAT FORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY TRACK GENERALLY NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADDITIONALLY... A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MAY DEVELOP AND PRODUCE A THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLOODING LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS EASTWARD INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND ROLLING PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 332 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 TXZ031-032-037-038-132100- COTTLE-DICKENS-KING-MOTLEY- 332 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DICKENS...KING...COTTLE AND MOTLEY COUNTIES... AT 326 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF DICKENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS SPEEDS UP TO 40 MPH...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. !JAMES!
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
449 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
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0449 PM HAIL 5 W PADUCAH 34.01N 100.39W
06/13/2010 E0.75 INCH COTTLE TX STORM CHASER
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EVENT NUMBER LUB1000208
SGEThe Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:50 UTC.
3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Penny size hail was reportedly accompanied by 45 mph wind gusts. No damage was reported.
Multiple reports of large hail were received from the Floydada vicinity during the 19:00 CST hour. Initial reports from a National Weather Service employee and the Floydada Fire Department indicated that quarter size hail impacted a swath of Texas Highway 207 from Floydada to south of the city. By 19:20 CST golfball size hail was reported in Floydada.
A storm chaser measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 68 mph east of Floydada along U.S. Highway 62/70. Visibility was reportedly near zero with torrential wind-driven rainfall. No damage was reported.
Severe winds accompanied a decaying thunderstorm in the Childress vicinity shortly after 22:00 CST. The Automated Surface Observing System at Childress Municipal Airport initially recorded a 68 mph wind gust at 22:10 CST. By 22:20 CST, the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site northeast of Childress measured a wind gust of 58 mph just northeast of the city. No damage was reported.
An intense downburst occurred over portions of southwestern Hall County near Turkey around 23:30 CST on the 13th. The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site just west-southwest of Turkey measured a 71 mph wind gust at 23:25 CST. An extreme gust of 101 mph was observed at 23:30 CST. The winds also were accompanied by intense rain bursts.
A post-storm survey by Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet meteorologists revealed that damage consistent with the measured wind speeds occurred along Texas Highway 86 from near the Briscoe and Hall County line to just west of Turkey. A trailer house was rolled by the winds and destroyed, and a large metal barn sustained severe damage with metal cross-beams blown some distance down wind. A number of utility poles also were snapped. No injuries were reported.
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