A band of thunderstorms developed over the western South Plains early this morning and spread slowly east, accompanied by torrential rainfall and near zero visibility at times. In addition to minor street flooding, rain contributed to several vehicle accidents along Highway 114 near Reese Center and along West Loop 289 in Lubbock.
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A band of thunderstorms developed over the western South Plains early this morning and spread slowly east, accompanied by torrential rainfall and near zero visibility at times. In addition to minor street flooding, rain contributed to several vehicle accidents along Highway 114 near Reese Center and along West Loop 289 in Lubbock. Radar indicated that areas from near Sundown and Levelland east to southern Lubbock and Wilson saw heavy rainfall of one to two inches with nearly four inches in a few locales.
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 Sep 11, 5:34 AM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 634 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014 .AVIATION... SHOWERS AND ISOLATED TS APPROACHING LUBBOCK FROM THE WEST IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS IN THE VALID TIME. HOWEVER CONCENTRATION OF TS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO INSERT MENTION INTO THAT TAF. STILL... CHANCES ARE NON-ZERO OF THAT POSSIBLE OCCURENCE THERE BEFORE 15Z. FOR KCDS...LOW CLOUDS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH AND NE SHOULD BRING A PERIOD OF MVFR AND POSSIBLY IFR CONDITIONS THERE THIS MORNING. FOCUS THEN SHIFTS TO RAIN EVENT OVERNIGHT. SHOWERS DEFINITELY FAVORED OVER THUNDER AT THAT TIME AND HAVE INSERTED MENTION IN THE TAFS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 428 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014/ SHORT TERM... FOCUS THIS MORNING REMAINS ON INCREASING RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT. UAA AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING AN UPPER LOW OFF THE COAST OF BAJA CALIFORNIA WHILE MODELS PROG A FAIRLY MODEST 50 KT UPPER LEVEL JET STREAK EJECTING FROM THIS LOW TODAY MOVING FROM NRN MEXICO ACROSS FAR WEST TEXAS AND ERN NEW MEXICO. ENOUGH LIFT FROM THIS JET STREAK INTERACTING WITH DEEP SUB-TROPICAL MOISTURE STREAMING NWD FROM THE ERN PACIFIC OFF THE COAST OF MAINLAND MEXICO TO GENERATE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS THAT WILL SPREAD NEWD/EWD ACROSS THE FCST AREA THROUGH THE NIGHT. CHANCE TO LIKELY POPS FOCUSING ON THE OVERNIGHT 06Z TO 12Z PERIOD STILL LOOKS GOOD. IN THE NEAR TERM...SHOWERS HAVE BEEN MUCH SLOWER TO DEVELOP IN NARROW ZONE OF ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER THE COOL...MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE TROPOSPHERE ACROSS WEST TEXAS. HOWEVER...SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING INCREASING MID-LEVEL CLOUD COVER FROM ERN NM TO THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND AS OF 08Z RADAR IMAGERY FINALLY BEGINNING TO SEE SOME VERY ISOLATED RETURNS. MODELS REMAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THIS MODEST LIFT INTERACTING WITH THE DEEPER MOISTURE TO GENERATE SOME PRECIP THIS MORNING. COULD SEE A QUIET PERIOD OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING BEFORE THE MECHANISM DISCUSSED ABOVE BEGINS TO IMPINGE ON THE AREA...ALTHOUGH WITH MOISTURE IN PLACE...THERE MAY BE ENOUGH DESTABILIZATION FOR SOME ISOLATED SHOWER DEVELOPMENT WITH PEAK HEATING. THAT HEATING WILL BE LIMITED BY CLOUD COVER AND COOL AIR MASS WITH FCST HIGHS FIVE TO TEN DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. LONG TERM... WELCOME RAINFALL APPEARS NEARLY CERTAIN FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS ON FRI AS AN UPPER TROUGH AND UNUSUALLY STRONG COLD FRONT INTERCEPT A DEEPENING PLUME OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE ATOP WEST TX. SOME PRECIP WILL LIKELY BE UNDERWAY AHEAD OF THE FRONT THANKS TO A ZONAL CORRIDOR OF ISENTROPIC ASCENT AROUND 305K AIDED BY THE UL JET MAX DISCUSSED IN THE SHORT TERM SECTION ABOVE. ARRIVAL OF THE COLD FRONT ACROSS OUR NWRN ZONES BY MID-MORNING COULD CERTAINLY GARNER SOME MESOSCALE BANDING WITH ENHANCED PRECIP RATES...BUT BY THE AFTN THIS FRONT WILL BE EXITING TO OUR SOUTH FOLLOWED BY PROGRESSIVELY DRIER AIR IN THE MID LEVELS. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A PROGRESSIVE DECAY OF PRECIP FROM N-S THROUGH THE AFTERNOON RESULTING IN THE ONLY SATURATED LAYERS BECOMING CONFINED TO THE LOWEST 5K FEET OR SO...A TRADEMARK COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH DRIZZLE. THE NAM MAINTAINS AN AXIS OF ELEVATED POST-FRONTAL ASCENT UNDER THE DECAYING ANTICYCLONIC JET STREAK FROM MEXICO...BUT THIS AND ITS ASSOCIATED QPF BANDS BY FRI NIGHT ARE BEING DISMISSED IN FAVOR OF WPC/S DRIER RECOMMENDATION. ANOTHER CHALLENGE ON FRI IS HIGH TEMPS AS THE TIMING OF COLD FROPA WILL GUARANTEE TEMPS END UP FALLING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. RAW MODELS HAVE WIDESPREAD LOWER 50S BEFORE SUNSET AND THIS APPEARS LEGITIMATE UPON LOOKING AT THE CHILLY AIR MASS PRESENTLY OCCUPYING THE ENTIRE EXTENT OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THE WESTERN EXTENT OF COOL SURFACE RIDGING IS NOW PROGGED TO LINGER ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS IS REFLECTED BY THE CONTINUED DOWNWARD TREND IN HIGH TEMPS PER MEX GUIDANCE. ANY BREAKS IN THE STRATUS ARE MOST LIKELY ACROSS OUR NRN-ERN ZONES NEAREST THE DRIEST AIR IN THE SURFACE HIGH. BY LATE SAT...MOIST ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL SLOWLY AMPLIFY AND ADVECT DEEPER MOISTURE NORTHWARD FROM THE BIG BEND. ALTHOUGH POSSIBLE...NOT WILLING TO INTRODUCE PRECIP MENTION JUST YET AS THE LL PRESSURE RIDGE MAY PROVE MUCH DEEPER AND END UP THWARTING PRECIP ALTOGETHER. STILL NOTABLE DIFFERENCES BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE ECMWF INSISTS ON A SHARPER TROUGH IN THE MIDWEST COMPLETE WITH ANOTHER COLD FRONT LOCALLY BY MON/TUE. THE GFS IS MUTED ENTIRELY WITH THESE FEATURES BUT STILL DELIVERS AN UNSETTLED NWLY FLOW REGIME UNDER CONTINUED LL MOISTENING. EVEN THOUGH MOS FROM THE ECMWF AND GFS ARE BULLISH WITH POPS FROM MON-WED...WILL KEEP PRECIP MENTION SHY OF 20 PERCENT FOR NOW UNTIL THIS PICTURE HOPEFULLY TRENDS CLEARER IN LATER RUNS. HI TEMPS SHOULD UNDERGO A VERY SLOW RECOVERY FOLLOWING THE UNSEASONABLY COOL START TO THE WEEKEND AND THREAT OF STUBBORN LOW CLOUDS FOR DAYS TO FOLLOW. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 78 58 60 43 67 / 20 70 70 10 10 TULIA 78 59 60 44 67 / 20 60 80 10 10 PLAINVIEW 79 60 62 45 63 / 20 60 80 10 10 LEVELLAND 79 61 64 45 62 / 30 70 80 20 10 LUBBOCK 80 62 63 48 62 / 20 70 80 10 10 DENVER CITY 80 62 65 45 62 / 30 70 80 30 10 BROWNFIELD 80 62 65 46 62 / 30 70 80 20 10 CHILDRESS 81 62 64 50 70 / 20 40 70 10 10 SPUR 81 62 65 49 67 / 20 60 80 10 10 ASPERMONT 81 63 68 50 68 / 20 60 70 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 07/93/07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 545 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014 TXZ021>044-121045- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 545 AM CDT THU SEP 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY UNSEASONABLY COOL AIR WITH NORTHEAST WINDS APPROACHING 30 MPH AT TIMES WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION ON FRIDAY BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT. THIS FRONT WILL BRING THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON SO FAR TO THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. MANY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE LOWS IN THE 40S BY SATURDAY MORNING. PERSONS ATTENDING OUTDOOR EVENTS FRIDAY EVENING SHOULD PLAN AND DRESS ACCORDINGLY FOR THESE UNUSUALLY COOL..DAMP AND BLUSTERY CONDITIONS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains of one to nearly three inches caused minor flooding of roads and streets from Levelland to Ropesville.
Very heavy rainfall and near zero visibility contributed to a five-vehicle accident on Highway 114 near Reese Center. One motorist was injured and transported to University Medical Center Hospital in Lubbock with non-life threatening injuries. Other less serious vehicle accidents were reported in west Lubbock along Loop 289 as this heavy rain moved east. Rainfall amounts exceeded one inch over much of western and southern Lubbock County with numerous instances of minor street flooding.
Heavy rains of one to nearly four inches produced minor flooding west of Tahoka along U.S. Highway 380 and also in the community of Wilson.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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