Isolated storms moved southward across the southern Texas panhandle during the late evening hours on the 24th. One of these storms produced a severe wind gust to 58 mph at Tulia (Swisher County).
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Isolated storms moved southward across the southern Texas panhandle during the late evening hours on the 24th. One of these storms produced a severe wind gust to 58 mph at Tulia (Swisher 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 Aug 24, 10:44 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1144 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2011 .AVIATION... VFR IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE WELL NORTH OF KLBB LATE THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO MAKE IT TO THE KLBB TERMINAL EARLY THIS MORNING. THERE MAY BE ANOTHER CHANCE AT ISOLATED STORMS THURSDAY EVENING BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO MENTION IN THE TAF AT THE MOMENT. GENERALLY LIGHT WINDS WILL PREVAIL. && PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 331 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2011/ SHORT TERM... THE UPPER RIDGE TO OUR WEST REMAINS THE DOMINATING INFLUENCE OVER THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS. A WEAK FRONT SLIPPING THROUGH THE PANHANDLE WAS SHOWING A BIT OF LIFE WITH SHOWERS FORMING OVER THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE. CUMULUS FIELD BUBBLING ONLY MODESTLY OVER PARTS OF OUR NORTHERN ZONES...NOT MUCH LIFE HERE YET. WE HAVE TRIMMED BACK THE ISOLATED THUNDER MENTION A TOUCH...THOUGH THERE IS NOT MUCH LESS THAN SLIGHT CHANCE ANYWAY. LATEST SOLUTIONS AGREE FRONT EVENTUALLY WILL CREEP INTO OUR NORTHERN OR POSSIBLY CENTRAL ZONES BY EARLY THURSDAY BEFORE WASHING OUT WITH DAILY UPSLOPE SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW. THE UPPER RIDGE WONT BUDGE WHILE POOLED MID LEVEL MOISTURE COULD YET SHOW SOME RESPONSE. WE WILL RETAIN LOW MENTION OF THUNDER AGAIN LATE ON THURSDAY WITH A BARELY DISCERNIBLE DIP IN HIGH TEMPERATURES THURSDAY MAINLY NORTHERN AREAS. RMCQUEEN LONG TERM... ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO THE ONGOING EXTENDED FORECAST. THE UPPER RIDGE CENTERED TO OUR NW WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPLY THE SOUTH PLAINS REGION WITH UNSEASONABLY HOT AND GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS LATE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...THIS RIDGE IS FORECAST TO SHIFT SOUTHWESTWARD BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH TRAVERSES THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST. THIS MAY BRIEFLY PUT THE REGION IN WEAK NW FLOW ALOFT AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH BY SUNDAY NIGHT. HENCE...LOW STORM CHANCES REMAIN VALID...INITIALLY ACROSS THE NW/N ZONES SUNDAY EVENING THEN EXPANDING TO THE SOUTHEAST SUNDAY NIGHT. THIS FRONT MAY PROVIDE A SLIGHT COOL DOWN INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK...THOUGH MOS TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE DOES REMAIN ABOVE LATE AUGUST AVERAGES. THE UPPER RIDGE IS THEN PROGGED TO FLATTEN MORE NOTABLY BUT TRANSLATE EASTWARD AND BECOME CENTERED MORE CLOSELY BY NEXT TUESDAY AS A BROAD TROUGH MOVES INTO THE WEST. EVEN SO...THE RIDGE MAY HAVE SOME MID-LEVEL MOISTURE EMBEDDED WITHIN IT AND DEPENDING ON WHERE THE FRONT STALLS OUT...CAN NOT RULE OUT LOW THUNDER CHANCES PERSISTING FOR PARTS OF THE AREA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 67 95 67 96 67 / 20 20 20 10 10 TULIA 70 97 69 98 69 / 20 10 10 0 10 PLAINVIEW 70 97 71 98 71 / 20 20 20 0 0 LEVELLAND 71 97 70 98 70 / 10 20 20 0 10 LUBBOCK 73 98 73 99 73 / 10 20 20 0 0 DENVER CITY 69 98 69 97 69 / 10 20 20 10 10 BROWNFIELD 69 98 69 98 69 / 10 20 20 0 0 CHILDRESS 78 104 76 104 76 / 20 10 10 10 0 SPUR 72 102 73 102 73 / 10 20 20 0 0 ASPERMONT 77 107 77 104 77 / 10 20 20 0 0 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 511 AM CDT WED AUG 24 2011 TXZ021>044-251015- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 511 AM CDT WED AUG 24 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Tulia measured a severe wind gust. No damage was reported.
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