Isolated thunderstorms developed over the southern Rolling Plains on the evening of the 25th. One of these storms became severe over Kent County producing hail up to the size of golf balls.
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Isolated thunderstorms developed over the southern Rolling Plains on the evening of the 25th. One of these storms became severe over Kent County producing hail up to the size of golf balls.
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 25, 5:28 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 628 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014 .AVIATION... -TSRA HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NEW MEXICO ONCE AGAIN THIS EVENING. THE CURRENT SYNOPTIC PATTERN HAS NOT CHANGED THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS AND THUS IF FOLLOWING WHAT HAS OCCURRED THE LAST FEW NIGHTS...-TSRA WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING MORE SO AT KCDS. HAVE INSERTED A PROB30 FOR THIS PLAUSIBILITY BUT WILL OF COURSE AMEND AS NECESSARY IF THE ACTIVITY APPEARS TO AFFECT KLBB. OTHERWISE...COULD SEE ANOTHER ROUND OF MVFR TO IFR CLOUD DECKS DEVELOP AT KLBB OVERNIGHT BEFORE SCOURING OUT BY MID- MORNING. LIGHT SRLY WINDS WILL BECOME SLIGHTLY BREEZY EARLY TOMORROW AFTN /AOA 15 KTS OR SO/. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 329 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014/ SHORT TERM... OVERALL PATTERN NOT SEEING MUCH CHANGE FROM YESTERDAY NOR GOING INTO THURSDAY ACROSS THE SRN HIGH PLAINS. MOIST SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL FEED SCATTERED CONVECTION ON THE HIGH TERRAIN OF NRN NM AND SRN COLO AGAIN THIS EVENING WHILE MODEST NW FLOW ALOFT WILL ATTEMPT TO BRING THOSE STORMS TOWARD THE FCST AREA. GIVEN RELATIVE DISTANCE CONVECTIVE INITIATION IS...WILL LIKELY SEE PRECIP POTENTIAL PUSHED INTO LATE NIGHT HOURS TONIGHT. MAY ALSO SEE PRECIP CONTINUE INTO THE 12Z-18Z TIME FRAME AS MID LEVELS LIKELY TO REMAIN MOIST AND UNSTABLE WITH ANY PERTURBATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH NOCTURNAL CONVECTION POSSIBLY RELEASING THAT INSTABILITY DURING THE MORNING HOURS THURSDAY. POSSIBILITY OF LINGERING CONVECTIVE DEBRIS AND MODELS CONSISTENTLY OVERDOING THE DIURNAL DECREASE IN SFC DEW POINT TEMPS...WILL FAVOR UNDERCUTTING MOS TEMPS FOR HIGHS THURSDAY. LONG TERM... BACKING UPPER FLOW WILL TAKE PLACE THURSDAY EVENING/NIGHT AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING NEGATIVELY TILTED TROUGH SWINGING THROUGH THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. WILL KEEP A DRY FORECAST GOING DURING THIS TIMEFRAME AS BACKING UPPER WIND FIELDS AND SOUTH/SOUTHWEST SURFACE WINDS IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO SHOULD KEEP CONVECTIVE INITIATION FROM OCCURRING. WOULD ALSO EXPECT ANY PREEXISTING ACTIVITY OFF THE CAPROCK TO BE OUT OF THE REGION BY EVENING. TRENDS CONTINUE FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED UPPER STORM SYSTEM TO DIVE FARTHER SOUTH LATER FRIDAY. WITH INCREASING MID LEVEL SUPPORT AS WELL AS BEING NEAR THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF AN UPPER JET STREAK...WILL INTRODUCE ISOLATED STORM CHANCES ON THE SOUTH PLAINS WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 27/US 87 CORRIDOR. FARTHER WEST NEAR THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE...DRY AIR SHOULD KEEP STORMS FROM DEVELOPING WITH THE DRYLINE MIXING EAST ACROSS THE CAPROCK. WILL LIKEWISE KEEP POPS BELOW MENTION EAST OF THE ESCARPMENT AS CAPPING SHOULD NEGATE CHANCES FOR INITIATION. RISING THICKNESSES INTO THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL LEAD TO WARMING AND LIKELY DRY CONDITIONS...ALTHOUGH UNCERTAINTY STILL EXISTS AS TO THE TIMING/STRENGTH OF ENSUING UPPER RIDGING. SOME HINT AT A BRIEF WINDOW OF NORTHWEST FLOW...BUT WEST/SOUTHWEST SURFACE WINDS UNDERNEATH THE BASE OF THE PASSING UPPER TROUGH SHOULD WIPE OUT CHANCES FOR UPSLOPE INDUCED CONVECTION IN NEW MEXICO SATURDAY. NEXT CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION COULD THEN COME BY EARLY-MID NEXT WEEK BY WAY OF AN APPROACHING FRONT AS AN UPPER LOW MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA AND THE ADJACENT CONUS. MAY ALSO SEE SOME INCREASE IN MOISTURE WITHIN THE RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST...BUT PRECIPITATION FROM THIS WOULD LIKELY REMAIN WEST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 63 90 65 94 64 / 20 20 10 20 10 TULIA 65 87 65 92 67 / 20 20 10 10 10 PLAINVIEW 66 88 66 93 68 / 20 20 10 10 10 LEVELLAND 67 90 68 96 68 / 20 10 10 10 20 LUBBOCK 68 89 69 95 69 / 20 20 10 10 10 DENVER CITY 65 91 66 96 68 / 10 10 10 20 20 BROWNFIELD 66 90 67 96 68 / 10 10 10 10 20 CHILDRESS 69 89 69 94 71 / 30 20 10 10 10 SPUR 68 89 69 93 71 / 20 20 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 69 91 71 94 72 / 20 20 10 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 29
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 549 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2014 TXZ021>044-261100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 549 AM CDT WED JUN 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
848 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014
TXZ043-044-260215-
KENT-STONEWALL-
848 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STONEWALL AND KENT COUNTIES...
AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.
IN ADDITION...ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS SPEEDS UP TO 40
MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF MODERATE TO
HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS 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 3300 10088 3319 10079 3326 10068 3327 10051
3301 10023 3296 10031 3296 10083
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 225DEG 7KT 3300 10072SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
915 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014
TXZ043-044-260245-
KENT-STONEWALL-
915 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STONEWALL AND KENT COUNTIES...
AT 915 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF JAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.
IN ADDITION...ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS SPEEDS UP TO 40
MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF MODERATE TO
HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS 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 3316 10076 3339 10090 3340 10055 3340 10043
3340 10012 3312 10010 3301 10053
TIME...MOT...LOC 0215Z 224DEG 20KT 3317 10059The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:18 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Sheriff's office in Kent County reported a brief period of golf ball size hail just west of Jayton. No damage was reported.
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