A squall line developed across Eastern New Mexico during the early evening hours before racing east across West Texas. Severe wind gusts were recorded in the far southwest Texas Panhandle and adjacent South Plains, before the line decreased somewhat in intensity.
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A squall line developed across Eastern New Mexico during the early evening hours before racing east across West Texas. Severe wind gusts were recorded in the far southwest Texas Panhandle and adjacent South Plains, before the line decreased somewhat in intensity. This line of storms then began bowing out as it pushed into the Rolling Plains, causing another severe burst of wind in Stonewall 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 Jun 13, 5:44 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 644 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2014 .AVIATION... MAIN CONCERN REVOLVES AROUND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS AT THE TERMINALS THIS EVENING. CONVECTION WAS ORGANIZING INTO A LINE ACROSS EASTERN NM AND IS EXPECTED TO PROPAGATE EAST OR SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH THIS EVENING. THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY AFFECT KLBB AFTER 02Z...WITH A SOMEWHAT LOWER CONFIDENCE OF AN IMPACT AT KCDS AFTER 04Z. THESE STORMS WILL BRING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS...WITH A LOWER THREAT OF HAIL. DID CARRY TEMPO GROUPS AT BOTH KLBB AND KCDS FOR POSSIBLE STORM IMPACTS THIS EVENING. A BRIEF PERIOD OF MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN. VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD RETURN AFTER THE CONVECTION...LIKELY PERSISTING THROUGH SATURDAY AS BREEZY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS DEVELOP. THERE WILL BE A MORE CONDITIONAL THREAT OF A HIGH-BASED STORM LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING...THOUGH CONFIDENCE IN A TERMINAL IMPACT IS TOO LOW TO INCLUDE IN THE TAFS ATTM. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 342 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2014/ SHORT TERM... EARLIER FORECAST FOR AN ACTIVE EVENING REMAINS ON TRACK AS SCATTERED TSTORMS HAVE SINCE ERUPTED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. SHORT WAVE RIDGE PRESENTLY ATOP THE SOUTH PLAINS WILL QUICKLY EXIT THE AREA BY 00Z AHEAD OF A MINOR IMPULSE EVIDENT IN EARLIER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. FINE SCALE MODELS GENERALLY AGREE THAT THE PRESENT TSTORMS WILL REACH OUR WESTERN COUNTIES NEAR 00Z AT WHICH POINT THEY SHOULD BEGIN CONSOLIDATING INTO AN MCS. EVEN DEEPER MOISTURE ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS ALONG WITH AN EMERGING 30-40 KNOT LLJ COULD CERTAINLY PROLONG THE WINDOW FOR SEVERE HAIL AND WIND WELL PAST SUNSET...BUT WE WOULD EXPECT THE BRUNT OF SEVERE WX TO EXIT THE AREA BEFORE MIDNIGHT AS THE MCS INEVITABLY TRACKS SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE CORRIDOR OF RICHEST THETA-E VALUES POOLING IN THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN. BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...OUR RATHER WEAK W-NWLY WINDS AT 500MB WILL BACK SWLY AND AMPLIFY TO AROUND 35 KNOTS AS THE BASE OF AN UPPER TROUGH GRAZES THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. UNFORTUNATELY...THE NEGATIVES WITH TOMORROW/S SETUP FOR PRECIP INCLUDE 1) WARMING TEMPS FROM 850-700MB 2) NEARLY NIL CYCLONIC FLOW WITH NO APPARENT IMPULSES 3) UPPER JET AXIS RESIDING WELL NORTH OF THE CWA 4) DIFFUSE CONVERGENCE ALONG DRYLINE. IN SPITE OF THESE DRAWBACKS...STRONG HEATING AND LOCALIZED ZONES OF ENHANCED CONVERGENCE ALONG THE DRYLINE /ESPECIALLY IN BRISCOE COUNTY WHERE WINDS TEND TO REMAIN BACKED EAST OF THE NW-SE ESCARPMENT/ COULD YIELD A FEW STORMS BY LATE AFTN IN AN OTHERWISE FAVORABLY SHEARED AND UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. RETAINED 20 PERCENT POPS IN OUR NORTHEAST FOR THIS BUT DID OPT FOR SUB-15 PERCENT ISOLATED THUNDER MENTION ELSEWHERE AS CAPPING COULD BE BREACHED BY DEEP MIXING AND HEATING. WE DO FEEL THE NAM AND TO SOME DEGREE THE TTU-WRF ARE OVERDONE WITH PRECIP COVERAGE BY LATE IN THE DAY IN THIS WEAKLY FORCED SETUP...BUT WE WON/T SHUT THE DOOR ON THIS POSSIBILITY JUST YET AND CONTINUE TO EVALUATE IN LATER FORECASTS. LONG TERM... BY SATURDAY EVENING...FLOW ACROSS THE CONUS WILL BE CHARACTERIZED BY TROUGHING IN THE WEST AND RIDGING OUT EAST. HURRICANE CHRISTINA WILL MOVE NORTHEAST. BY MONDAY...ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL COME ASHORE THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE REMNANTS OF CHRISTINA WILL PHASE WITH THIS SYSTEM AND BECOME INCORPORATED IN THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW. THE PACIFIC NW SYSTEM EVOLUTION DIVERGES SHARPLY AFTER TUESDAY WITH THE GFS KICKING IT OUT INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS BY LATE THURSDAY AND THE ECM HANGING IT BACK AROUND IDAHO BEFORE LIFTING INTO SRN SK. THUS...WILL TREND THE LATTER EXTENDED TOWARD CLIMATOLOGY THOUGH FAVORING THE ECM SOLUTION. AFTER LOW-END STORM CHANCES SATURDAY EVENING...CONFLUENT FLOW LOOKS TO EXIST THROUGH SUNDAY BEFORE A BROAD SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW REGIME RETURNS FOR MONDAY. THERE IS SOME POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED STORM PERHAPS IN THE ROLLING PLAINS...THOUGH CONFIDENCE GENERALLY PRECLUDES EXPLICIT MENTION IN THE GRIDS ATTM. RAIN CHANCES MAY INCREASE MONDAY AFTERNOON AS UPPER LEVEL FLOW BECOMES MORE PARALLEL ONCE AGAIN. INTO TUESDAY AND PERHAPS WEDNESDAY...AFTERNOON AND EVENING STORM CHANCES SEEM POSSIBLE THOUGH NARROWING THE LOCATION IS A BIT OF A CHALLENGE GIVEN THE GENERAL HOMOGENEITY OF THE BOUNDARY. THE DRYLINE WILL BE OF THE SLOSHING VARIETY AND MAY VERY WELL PUSH A BIT FURTHER EAST ON THURSDAY LIMITING THE RAIN CHANCES WEST. BUT...OTHERWISE...TYPICAL MOIST JUNE CONDITIONS PREVAIL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 63 93 59 86 61 / 60 10 10 10 10 TULIA 64 92 64 86 65 / 40 10 20 10 10 PLAINVIEW 65 92 65 87 66 / 50 10 20 10 10 LEVELLAND 66 94 65 90 67 / 60 10 20 10 10 LUBBOCK 67 94 68 90 69 / 60 10 20 10 10 DENVER CITY 65 95 65 93 67 / 60 10 10 10 10 BROWNFIELD 65 94 65 93 66 / 60 10 10 10 10 CHILDRESS 68 95 70 92 71 / 20 20 30 10 10 SPUR 68 94 68 93 70 / 30 10 20 10 10 ASPERMONT 71 96 71 97 72 / 30 10 20 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 23/33/23
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1100 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2014 TXZ021>044-141100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1100 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND MOVE EASTWARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...MAINLY AFFECTING THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE...ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS TO THE EDGE OF THE CAPROCK. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON SATURDAY ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station located two miles northeast of Friona.
Estimated by the Bailey County Sheriff's Office.
Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station located three miles northeast of Aspermont.
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