Early this evening, a large supercell thunderstorm turned southward and moved across Briscoe, Hall and Motley Counties accompained by very large hail up to tennis ball size and damaging straight-line winds. By late this night, scattered strong and severe storms organized farther west near the Texas and New Mexico state line and quickly flourished into a damaging squall line that raced…
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Early this evening, a large supercell thunderstorm turned southward and moved across Briscoe, Hall and Motley Counties accompained by very large hail up to tennis ball size and damaging straight-line winds. By late this night, scattered strong and severe storms organized farther west near the Texas and New Mexico state line and quickly flourished into a damaging squall line that raced east-southeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. Several reports of severe winds accompanied this squall line from Parmer County east to Childress County - the most severe of which involved 47 freight train cars derailing in far northeast Parmer County from winds determined to be as high as 100 mph.
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 16, 5:27 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 627 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013 .AVIATION... UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS IN PLACE THIS EVENING AND TSTMS REMAIN A POSSIBILITY AT BOTH TERMINALS. STORMS HAVE FIRED ABOUT 50 NM W KCDS BUT STORM MOTION IS EXPECTED TO BE SLOWLY EASTWARD OR SOUTHWARD DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY BEGIN TO ROTATE. METAR DATA IS NOT FLOWING FROM EITHER TAF SITE THUS THE AMD NOT SKED AT KCDS. HOWEVER...WE ARE ABLE TO MONITOR CONDITIONS AT KLBB VIA WEBCAM MORE READILY. ASIDE FROM THAT...MAY SEE A FEW LOW CLOUDS AROUND SUNRISE ONCE AGAIN BUT IMPACTS SHOULD BE MINIMAL WITH AT LEAST MVFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 255 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013/ SHORT TERM... ONLY SOME MINOR TWEAKS MADE TO THE FORECAST FOR OVERNIGHT FROM THE PREVIOUS UPDATE. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES CONTINUE TO BE ABOVE NORMAL AND THREATEN FOR ANY HEAVY RAIN WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. HOWEVER...CLOUD LAYER FLOW WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP STORMS MOVING AT A MODERATE PACE. CORFIDI VECTORS PROG BETWEEN 20 AND 30KT THIS EVENING WHICH WILL LIMIT THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INITIATE ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE LOW LEVEL THETA-E RIDGE WILL BROADEN OVER THE ENTIRE FA AND EXTEND BACK INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO SUGGESTING INITIATION FARTHER WEST TOMORROW AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...ADDING MUCH COMPLICATION TO THE FORECAST WILL BE ANY REMNANT CONVECTIVE BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTION THIS EVENING AS WELL AS A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE REGION. PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL LIKELY BE HIGHEST NEAR ANY REMAINING BOUNDARY. JDV LONG TERM... AGAIN... CHANGES TO THIS FORECAST PERIOD ARE MINIMAL... AS THE NEXT THREE DAYS REMAIN POTENTIALLY ACTIVE FOLLOWED BY A LULL IN PRECIPITATION CHANCES UNDERNEATH A STRENGTHENING RIDGE. BY MONDAY EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ONGOING IN THE AREA... POTENTIALLY ALONG A SAGGING COLD FRONT AND FARTHER TO THE NORTHWEST A BIT LATER. MODERATE WNW FLOW ALOFT COMBINED WITH MOIST UPSLOPE SURFACE FLOW WILL RESULT IN A FAVORABLE SETUP FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM ALONG THE HIGH TERRAIN OF NEW MEXICO... AND PROPAGATE RATHER QUICKLY INTO THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING. GIVEN AMPLE MOISTURE... STRONG HEATING AND STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES... INSTABILITY WILL BE MODERATE TO STRONG BY PEAK HEATING...AND SHOULD REACH 2000+ J/KG OF CAPE. IN ADDITION... MODERATE WNW FLOW ALOFT COMBINED WITH ESE FLOW AT THE SURFACE WILL RESULT IN MORE THAN ADEQUATE BULK SHEAR FOR SEVERE UPDRAFTS... WITH VALUES REACHING PERHAPS UP TO 40-50 KTS. STORMS COMING INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST WILL LIKELY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION... WHILE THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE RELATIVELY FAST MOVERS...HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF STORMS ACROSS THE SAME AREAS MAY INTRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF MINOR FLOODING. TUESDAY WILL PROVIDE A SIMILAR SITUATION... ALTHOUGH DETAILS REGARDING THIS SCENARIO WILL LARGELY DEPEND ON HOW THE SURFACE FIELDS RECOVER FOLLOWING POTENTIALLY WIDESPREAD CONVECTION LASTING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A SWEEPING MCS COULD DRIVE THE SURFACE FRONT EVEN FARTHER SOUTH... ALTHOUGH MODELS ALL SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT WINDS WILL VEER BACK TO THE SOUTHEAST IN RESPONSE TO PRESSURE FALLS IN THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES...WITH AN OVERALL DIFFUSION OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ITSELF. ONCE AGAIN... MODERATE WNW FLOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA ALONG THE RIM OF A FLAT RIDGE... WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SMALL-SCALE PERTURBATIONS WITHIN IT. ASSUMING ADEQUATE RECOVERY...A FAVORABLE SETUP MAY EXIST FOR YET ANOTHER FAST-MOVING MCS TO ROLL OFF THE HIGH TERRAIN OF NEW MEXICO AND INTO AT LEAST THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA BY EARLY EVENING. MODELS CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THE UPPER RIDGE BY WEDNESDAY... WHICH WILL PUT AN END TO PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH THE END OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM UP AS THE RIDGE STRENGTHENS... WITH READINGS APPROACHING THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 100 BY THE WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 66 89 65 84 64 / 30 30 60 30 40 TULIA 69 89 66 86 69 / 30 30 50 30 40 PLAINVIEW 68 90 68 84 69 / 30 30 60 30 40 LEVELLAND 70 93 67 95 68 / 40 30 60 30 30 LUBBOCK 72 94 69 90 69 / 40 30 60 30 30 DENVER CITY 67 93 68 97 68 / 40 30 50 20 20 BROWNFIELD 69 93 69 96 69 / 40 30 50 30 30 CHILDRESS 72 96 70 89 70 / 50 30 50 30 30 SPUR 72 96 71 91 71 / 30 30 60 30 30 ASPERMONT 74 99 74 95 73 / 30 30 50 30 30 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 99/99/26
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1207 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013 TXZ021>044-171715- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1207 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 27 CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND WINDS TO 60 MPH. FARTHER NORTH IN THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...A MORE WIDESPREAD COMPLEX OF STORMS MAY FORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST MOSTLY AFFECTING PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND THE SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
627 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013
TXZ024-025-162345-
BRISCOE-HALL-
627 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES...
AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL BRISCOE COUNTY...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...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.
LAT...LON 3472 10088 3455 10086 3453 10122 3475 10125
3475 10091
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 250DEG 17KT 3467 10114
GUSEMANSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 644 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013 TXZ024-025-170000- BRISCOE-HALL- 644 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES... AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN BRISCOE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...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. LAT...LON 3454 10082 3457 10114 3475 10115 3475 10083 TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 268DEG 13KT 3466 10104 GUSEMAN
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
659 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013
TXZ024-025-170030-
BRISCOE-HALL-
659 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HALL AND BRISCOE COUNTIES...
AT 657 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BRISCOE COUNTY...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT 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.
LAT...LON 3457 10065 3442 10069 3451 10107 3475 10109
3475 10067
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 280DEG 18KT 3458 10094
GUSEMANThe Amarillo radar (KAMA), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:08 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A NWS employee reported golf ball size hail along Highway 70 north of Turkey. Farther south, a storm chaser estimated tennis ball size hail along the same highway as this hailswath moved south.
Fire rescue officials reported a large tree uprooted between Quitaque and Turkey.
A local fire department official observed quarter size hail north of Matador. Additionally, damage to trees and roofs were reported on the north side of Matador.
The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site in Roaring Springs measured a 60 mph wind gust.
The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site in Dimmitt measured a 58 mph gust.
A citizen reported a carport blown off from a residence and into a neighboring yard.
A local Emergency Manager relayed a report from a train crew in Summerfield - 47 train cars derailed with 42 being blown over by severe thunderstorm outflow winds. No cargo spilled and no injuries were reported.
The Automated Surface Observing System at the Childress Municipal Airport recorded wind gusts up to 67 mph for about a ten minute duration.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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