Isolated to scattered thunderstorms developed over the South Plains of west Texas during the afternoon and evening hours of the 9th. A few of these storms produced localized severe wind gusts up to 65 mph that were measured by the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet and reported by local law enforcement officials.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Isolated to scattered thunderstorms developed over the South Plains of west Texas during the afternoon and evening hours of the 9th. A few of these storms produced localized severe wind gusts up to 65 mph that were measured by the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet and reported by local law enforcement officials. Minor damages to crops and utilities resulted in Floyd 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 Sep 9, 2:23 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 323 PM CDT THU SEP 9 2010 .SHORT TERM... FORECAST APPEARS GENERALLY ON-TRACK AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL ENERGY OVERRUNS SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE DEVELOPING CLOSE TO THE WRF/NAM EXPECTATIONS WITH ACTIVITY LIKELY TO SPREAD THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. SURFACE BASED CAPES IN THIS AREA MOSTLY AROUND 500 J/KG YIELDING A FEW MODERATE UPDRAFTS WITH LOW POTENTIAL FOR A WIND GUST THREAT. HIGHER CAPES OVER EASTERN ZONES BY MID EVENING MIGHT YIELD AN EVEN STRONGER STORM OR TWO SHOULD STORMS SURVIVE THAT FAR TO THE EAST. EDGED LOW MENTION OF THUNDER SLIGHTLY FURTHER EAST INTO PARTS OF THE ROLLING PLAINS. ACTIVITY LIKELY TO DISSIPATE GRADUALLY AFTER DARK. SURFACE TROUGH TO REMAIN INTO FRIDAY WITH SLIGHTLY STRONGER SOUTHWEST COMPONENT PULLING SURFACE MOISTURE AXIS A BIT FURTHER TO THE EAST. THIS SHOULD ALLOW ANOTHER NOTCH OR TWO OF WARMING ACROSS THE AREA...WHILE LIMITING THUNDER CHANCES MAINLY TO THE SOUTHERN ROLLING PLAINS LATE ON FRIDAY. MODERATE CAPES AGAIN LATE FRIDAY OFFER AT LEAST SOME POTENTIAL FOR A STRONGER STORM OR TWO...THOUGH LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION OF THIS ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE HIGH. RMCQUEEN && .LONG TERM... EARLY IN THE PERIOD...THE LEE TROF/DRYLINE IS PROGGED TO BE ON THE SERN EDGE OF THE CWA. THEREFORE...WILL CONTINUE A SLGT CHANCE IN THE SERN ZONES. AS THE SFC LOW PUSHES EWRD AN ASSOCIATED DRY COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE INTO THE FA EARLY SAT. OTHERWISE...THE UA RIDGE WILL BUILD BACK OVER THE AREA THIS WEEKEND WHICH WILL CONTINUE THE DRY CONDITIONS...THOUGH MODELS CONTINUE TO HINT SOME TSTM DEVELOPMENT ROUNDING THE RIDGE. ATTM THOUGH CONFIDENCE REMAINS LOW. THEREFORE...WILL KEEP POPS BELOW MENTIONABLE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 61 92 53 84 58 / 20 10 0 10 10 TULIA 63 93 57 84 62 / 20 10 10 10 10 PLAINVIEW 63 93 58 85 61 / 20 10 10 10 10 LEVELLAND 61 94 60 88 63 / 20 10 10 10 10 LUBBOCK 65 93 61 90 63 / 20 10 10 10 10 DENVER CITY 62 94 61 89 65 / 20 10 10 10 10 BROWNFIELD 63 94 62 90 65 / 20 10 10 10 10 CHILDRESS 69 98 64 86 66 / 20 10 10 10 10 SPUR 68 95 66 91 67 / 20 10 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 71 98 70 94 72 / 10 20 20 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/40
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 744 AM CDT THU SEP 9 2010 TXZ021>044-101245- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 744 AM CDT THU SEP 9 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:27 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site south of Olton recorded a thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph. No damages were reported.
At 20:15 CST, local law enforcement officials estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts exceeded 65 mph in Floydada. A National Weather Service survey team found a swath of wind damage from immediately south of Floydada to approximately eight miles east of town along U.S. Highway 62/70. Large sections of corn were reportedly blown over by the winds and several utility poles were snapped.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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