Scattered thunderstorms developed over the South Plains and Rolling Plains on the afternoon of the 25th. Around 1530 CST, a NWS employee reported a weak non-mesocyclonic tornado southwest of the city of Lubbock.
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Scattered thunderstorms developed over the South Plains and Rolling Plains on the afternoon of the 25th. Around 1530 CST, a NWS employee reported a weak non-mesocyclonic tornado southwest of the city of Lubbock. No damages were reported.
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 25, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 250 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011 .SHORT TERM... STRONG UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL REMAIN PARKED OVER THE NORTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH FRIDAY. MID LEVEL NORTHEASTERLY FLOW WITH MODEST MOISTURE INITIALLY OVER SOUTHWESTERN HALF OF THE AREA EXPECTED TO DRY BY LATE FRIDAY. LOW CHANCE HIGH BASED T-STORMS EARLY WITHIN THIS MOISTURE PLUME THIS AFTERNOON INTO AT LEAST EARLY TONIGHT...WITH DRY TREND TO FOLLOW. SURFACE FRONT CURRENTLY STATIONARY LYING WITHIN THIS SAME MOIST LAYER EXPECTED TO WASH OUT FURTHER OVERNIGHT. HIGHER SURFACE DEW-POINTS SEEPING IN BEHIND WEAK FRONT CONTRIBUTING TO HIGHER MOST UNSTABLE CAPES EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... SPOTS UP TO 1000+ JOULES PER KILOGRAM CAPABLE OF A FEW MODESTLY STRONG CELLS WITH STRONG OUTFLOW WIND GUSTS THE CULPRIT TO WATCH FOR. MILD TONIGHT...PERHAPS A FEW DEGREES LOWER THAN LAST NIGHT BARRING DEW-POINTS REMAINING VERY ELEVATED. ANOTHER VERY WARM IF NOT HOT DAY ON THE WAY FOR FRIDAY BENEATH RELENTLESS UPPER RIDGE. RMCQUEEN && .LONG TERM... TOWARD THE WEEKEND...THE UPPER HIGH IS FCST TO RETROGRADE TOWARD THE CENTRAL ROCKIES WITH AN EAST TO SOUTHEASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW PREVAILING. CONVECTIVE CHANCES FOR SATURDAY LOOK MINIMAL AS ONLY WEAK INSTABILITY WILL EXIST DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS WITH A DEEPLY MIXED LOWER TO MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE...AND EVEN A HINT OF A SUBTLE SUBSIDENCE INVERSION JUST ABOVE 500 MB TO FURTHER INHIBIT ALL BUT THE MOST ISOLATED MOIST CONVECTIVE CELLS. DECENT MODEL AGREEMENT WITH EVOLUTION OF PATTERN FOR NEXT FEW DAYS. CENTER OF UPPER HIGH WILL MOVE WEST TO NEAR THE 4 CORNERS REGION BY SUNDAY WITH N/NE UPPER FLOW DEVELOPING LATE IN THE WEEKEND...NOT A FAVORABLE PATTERN FOR PRECIPITATION. HOWEVER...BOTH THE WRF/NMM AND GFS SHOW A FRONT MOVING AT LEAST AS FAR SOUTH AS THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE ON SUNDAY IN WAKE OF SHORTWAVE MOVING SE AROUND NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF RIDGE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. GIVEN PROXIMITY OF FRONT AND SFC TROF TO THE WEST...AND DECENT CONVECTIVE SIGNAL AT LEAST WITH THE GFS...WILL LEAVE IN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE NWRN 2/3 OF THE AREA SUNDAY EVENING AND NIGHT. BOTH GFS AND ECMWF BOTH SHIFT UPPER HIGH SOUTHWARD INTO SRN AZ AND NM LATE IN THE WEEKEND...WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A MORE FAVORABLE NW FLOW PATTERN AND FARTHER SOUTHWARD PROGRESSION OF ANY FRONTS/OUTFLOWS. GIVEN THAT POSSIBILITY...HAVE EXTENDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON/NIGHT. BY TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK...RIDGE IS PROGGED TO BEGIN TO FLATTEN AND EXPAND BACK TO EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...AS UPPER TROUGH DIGS INTO THE NW STATES. KEPT POPS BELOW MENTIONABLE LEVELS AS LITTLE IN THE WAY OF TRIGGER/FOCI IS APPARENT IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A CONTINUATION OF THE WEAKLY UNSTABLE AND SUBSIDENT REGIME. JAMES/06 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 67 97 67 97 65 / 20 10 10 10 10 TULIA 70 99 67 99 67 / 20 10 10 10 10 PLAINVIEW 70 99 67 99 67 / 20 10 0 10 10 LEVELLAND 69 99 68 99 67 / 20 10 10 0 10 LUBBOCK 71 100 71 100 70 / 20 10 0 0 10 DENVER CITY 70 100 67 98 67 / 20 10 10 0 10 BROWNFIELD 70 100 67 99 67 / 20 10 0 0 10 CHILDRESS 76 105 71 105 73 / 10 10 0 10 10 SPUR 74 102 71 103 70 / 20 10 0 0 10 ASPERMONT 79 105 73 105 74 / 20 10 0 0 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 304 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011 TXZ021>044-262015- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 304 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG OUTFLOW WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE FROM A FEW OF THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE LIMITED THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
306 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011
TXZ044-252030-
STONEWALL-
306 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST STONEWALL COUNTY...
AT 302 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL STONEWALL COUNTY...MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...OCCASIONAL 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.
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LAT...LON 3310 10051 3316 10031 3301 10019 3296 10026
3296 10051
TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 056DEG 7KT 3303 10034The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:31 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A NWS employee reported a weak landspout tornado southwest of Lubbock during the afternoon of the 25th. No damage was reported.
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