Severe thunderstorms developed during the evening hours of the 27th along the western edge of a quasi-stationary front. These storms mainly impacted the extreme southwestern Texas panhandle.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms developed during the evening hours of the 27th along the western edge of a quasi-stationary front. These storms mainly impacted the extreme southwestern Texas panhandle. Lightning from these storms also sparked several wildfires which flared up during the daytime on the 28th.
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 27, 5:33 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 633 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 .AVIATION... ISOLATED CONVECTION IS TRYING TO DEVELOP ALONG A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH IS STRETCHED SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST JUST NORTH OF KLBB. FORECAST MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW UPSCALE GROWTH OF THIS CONVECTION THIS EVENING...BUT OVERALL CONFIDENCE IN IMPACTS AT KLBB IS LOW. HAVE INTRODUCED AN INTERMITTENT MVFR VIS RESTRICTION AND CB 00-03Z... BUT CIGS SHOULD REMAIN ABOVE CRITICAL THRESHOLDS. CONFIDENCE IN CONVECTION IN VICINITY OF KCDS IS LESS...BUT THERE MODELS SHOW SOME POTENTIAL FOR LOW CLOUDS TO DEVELOP BY MORNING... MAINLY JUST NORTH OF THE TERMINAL. A LOW PROBABILITY OF BRIEF CIGS BKN020-030 MAY EXIST THERE BETWEEN 10-14Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 312 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011/ SHORT TERM... THE MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT WILL PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME UNCOMFORTABLE OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES OCCURRING ONCE AGAIN ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS AND THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. A SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED FORECAST HAS EVOLVED THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED INTO THE AREA FROM THE PANHANDLE INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS. AS OF 3 PM CDT...THE MAIN FRONTAL PUSH HAS SLOWED QUITE A BIT AND WAS LOCATED GENERALLY ALONG A LINE FROM MORTON TO PLAINVIEW TO TURKEY TO MEMPHIS. NORTH OF THIS BOUNDARY...COLD AIR ADVECTION HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES OVER 20 DEGREES COOLER THAN THEY WERE YESTERDAY AT THIS TIME...WITH READINGS ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN PANHANDLE STRUGGLING TO CLIMB ABOVE THE LOW TO MIDDLE 90S. SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY...TEMPERATURES ARE A BIT WARMER THOUGH STILL NOTABLY COOLER THAN YESTERDAY. STILL...HIGHS HAVE REACHED THE CENTURY MARK IN MOST PLACES AND GENERALLY SHOULD REACH THE MID TO PERHAPS THE UPPER 100S BEFORE PEAK HEATING CEASES. THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONT MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR SOME HIGH-BASED CONVECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JUST AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY...WINDS ARE BEGINNING TO BACK TO A MORE SE TO ESE DIRECTION WHICH WILL ENHANCE LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND PERHAPS SPARK OFF A FEW HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORMS AS THE CAPS WEAKENS. THE NAM...WRF...AND HRRR ARE ALL INDICATING A FEW STORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THIS CONVERGENCE ZONE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AROUND 22-23Z AND DRIFTING OFF TO THE NORTH AND EAST TOWARD THE NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS/SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE. ONE LIMITING FACTOR COULD BE A NOSE OF DRY AIR WORKING ITS WAY INTO THE SOUTHWEST PANHANDLE WHICH HAS LOWERED DEWPOINTS... KEEPING WINDS VEERED IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY AND THE BETTER MOISTURE FURTHER EAST. STILL CERTAINLY FEEL THAT SOME THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY LATER THIS EVENING...THOUGH DO NOT THINK THAT MUCH IN THE WAY OF APPRECIATE RAINFALL IS LIKELY GIVEN THE HIGH DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS. THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY CONVECTION THAT DOES DEVELOP WILL LIKELY BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS GIVEN THE INVERTED-V SOUNDING PROFILES AND DRY LIGHTNING. OVERNIGHT...MODELS /PARTICULARLY THE HRRR/ ARE SHOWING A COMPLEX OF STORMS ROLLING OFF OF THE MOUNTAINS AND PUSHING INTO THE PANHANDLE...WITH PERHAPS SOME OUTFLOW DRIVEN CONVECTION APPROACHING THE NORTHWESTERN/NORTH CENTRAL ZONES AFTER MIDNIGHT. GIVEN THE WNW MEAN FLOW...AM THINKING MOST OF THIS CONVECTION WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE LUB CWA /WHICH IS REFLECTED BY MOST OF THE MODELS/. HOWEVER... CERTAINLY CANNOT RULE OUT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS IN OUR NORTHERN ZONES AFTER 06Z AND SO HAVE REFLECTED THIS THE GRIDS. OTHERWISE... TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN LAST NIGHT...BUT WILL STILL BE RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND OFF OF THE CAPROCK...ONLY DROPPING INTO THE MID TO UPPER 70S /WARRANTING THE HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING/. FOR TUESDAY...WINDS WILL SHIFT BACK TO A PREVAILING SOUTHERLY DIRECTION. GIVEN THE LOWER 700 MB TEMPERATURES AM NOT EXPECTING HIGHS TO APPROACH THE RECORD LEVELS OBSERVED THIS PAST WEEKEND. HOWEVER...WITH A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE STILL CONTROLLING THE WEATHER AND SOME PROGGED INCREASED THICKNESS VALUES...HIGHS WILL LIKELY REACH OR EXCEED THE LOW TO MID 100S AREAWIDE. LONG TERM... HOT DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UP TO THE 4TH OF JULY. THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT IS EXPECT TO PERSIST OVER THE REGION FOR THE NEXT 5 TO 7 DAYS WITH NOTHING IN THE MODELS TO SUGGEST MEANINGFUL RAINFALL CHANCES. THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE WHEN COMPARED TO THE WEATHER OF THIS PAST WEEKEND IS THAT THE MODELS TREND TOWARD SHIFTING THE HOTTEST MID LAYER TEMPERATURES NORTHWESTWARD OFF OF OUR LOCAL AREA THUS LOWERING AFTERNOON HIGHS SLIGHTLY. WE BELIEVE GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO TREND TOO COOL CONSTANTLY TRYING TO PULL VALUES CLOSER TO CLIMOTOLOGICAL NORMS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 67 99 67 103 68 / 30 0 0 0 0 TULIA 71 102 71 104 72 / 30 0 0 0 0 PLAINVIEW 71 101 71 103 72 / 30 0 0 0 0 LEVELLAND 71 102 68 103 70 / 30 0 0 0 0 LUBBOCK 74 102 72 104 73 / 30 0 0 0 0 DENVER CITY 68 102 68 103 69 / 20 0 0 0 0 BROWNFIELD 70 102 68 103 70 / 20 0 0 0 0 CHILDRESS 76 104 77 108 78 / 30 10 0 0 0 SPUR 76 104 74 105 75 / 10 0 0 0 0 ASPERMONT 78 106 77 107 77 / 10 0 0 0 0 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ026-030>032-035>038-041>044. && 20
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1242 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 TXZ021>044-281745- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1242 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA TODAY WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR SOME HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GREATEST CHANCES WILL BE FROM AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT WILL STRETCH FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS INTO THE CENTRAL ROLLING PLAINS. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND DRY LIGHTNING WHICH COULD INITIATE FIRES GIVEN THE VERY DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION. NON PRECIPITATION A HEAT ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT ROUGHLY ALONG AND EAST OF A SILVERTON TO LUBBOCK LINE UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING AS DAYTIME HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL APPROACH OR EXCEED 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON AND COINCIDE WITH OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES REMAINING AT OR ABOVE 75 DEGREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND DANGEROUS HEAT LEVELS MAY RETURN TO THE AREA AGAIN LATER IN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 712 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 TXZ033-280045- COCHRAN- 712 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COCHRAN COUNTY... AT 711 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND BLOWING DUST...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 729 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 TXZ027-280100- BAILEY- 729 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BAILEY COUNTY... AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS SPREADING NORTH FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY. THESE WINDS...AND POSSIBLY BLOWING DUST...WERE SPREADING NORTHWARD OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN BAILY COUNTY AT 25 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND BLOWING DUST ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 929 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 TXZ021-027-280300- BAILEY-PARMER- 929 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BAILEY AND PARMER COUNTIES... AT 926 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF MULESHOE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...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.
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:57 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Parmer County Sheriff estimated a wind gust to 60 mph a couple miles southeast of Farwell on U.S. Highway 84. No damage was reported.
A fire department official in Rhea reported an estimated wind gust to 70 mph along with quarter size hail.
A fire department official in Rhea reported quarter size hail and damage to corn fields.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2011
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 317907, 317908, 317909.