In the wake of a strong but shallow cold front this morning, a thunderstorm developed around 1100 CST along the trailing frontal layer aloft. This storm drifted north from southwest Lubbock and proceeded to drop hail up to dime size with severe wind gusts by the time it reached the western edge of the city of Lubbock.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
In the wake of a strong but shallow cold front this morning, a thunderstorm developed around 1100 CST along the trailing frontal layer aloft. This storm drifted north from southwest Lubbock and proceeded to drop hail up to dime size with severe wind gusts by the time it reached the western edge of the city of Lubbock.
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 Aug 23, 11:09 AM CST, 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1209 PM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 .UPDATE... A FEW SHOWERS AND T-STORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS TO THE NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT WHICH IS JUST EXITING OUR SRN ZONES. WE HAVE ADDED AN ISOLATED MENTION TO THE FORECAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON FOR ROUGHLY THE SRN 2/3RDS OF THE FORECAST AREA. SOME BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE UNDERNEATH THESE CELLS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 632 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015/ AVIATION... IMMINENT COLD FROPA AT LBB WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A GRADUAL UPTICK IN NLY WINDS...GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS OR SO BY MID-MORNING BEFORE RELAXING TO 12 KNOTS OR LESS THIS AFTN. MVFR CIGS ARE NOTED IN THE CENTRAL PANHANDLE AND SOME OF THESE SHOULD EXPAND SOUTH TO AT LEAST CDS AND PVW BEFORE ERODING THIS AFTERNOON. MOST MODELS HOLD THESE CIGS NORTH OF LBB...BUT WILL MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 402 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015/ SHORT TERM... CANADIAN FRONT AT 4 AM WAS MAKING STEADY PROGRESS SOUTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AND AT ITS PRESENT MOTION OF 25-30 MPH SHOULD BE IN LUBBOCK BY SUNRISE. STRONGEST PRESSURE RISES WERE FOCUSING ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLE WHERE EARLIER DALHART OBSERVED LOWER VISBYS AND BLOWING DUST FROM NORTHERLY GUSTS OVER 30 MPH. ASIDE FROM A FEW SCANT SHOWERS AND STORMS IN THE ENHANCED POST-FRONTAL UPSLOPE REGIME OF NERN NM...PRECIP CHANCES ARE SHAPING UP QUITE POOR GIVEN AN OVERALL ABSENCE OF PRE AND POST-FRONTAL CLOUDS. WORSE...REGIONAL VWP DATA SHOW THAT THE LLJ HAS VEERED SW /NOW PARALLEL TO THE FRONT/ WHICH IS FURTHER HURTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEEPER CONVERGENCE AND SATURATED ASCENT. IN LIGHT OF THESE UNFAVORABLE FACTORS...EARLIER CHANCE POPS WERE SHOWN THE DOOR. AN ERRANT SHOWER MAY STILL SNEAK INTO OUR NW ZONES FROM THE MORE FAVORABLE NELY UPSLOPE FLOW IN ERN NM...BUT ODDS ARE LOOKING QUITE LONG FOR MEASURABLE PRECIP THIS A.M. THE FRONT IS LIKELY TO STALL IN THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SURFACE HIGH HOLDS UP IN THE NRN PANHANDLE. ALTHOUGH NELY WINDS WILL ADVECT AN AXIS OF RICH POST-FRONTAL DEWPOINTS INTO OUR SERN COUNTIES FROM OKLAHOMA...MOST MODEL SOUNDINGS NORTH OF THE FRONT SHOW TOO MUCH CINH EVEN WITH WARMER TEMPS FROM A REDUCED COVERAGE OF CLOUDS. DID RETAIN A SLIVER OF LOW POPS IN OUR SOUTHERN ROW OF COUNTIES GIVEN THEIR PROXIMITY TO THE BOUNDARY... BUT EVEN THIS MAY BE TOO OPTIMISTIC. TONIGHT...SOME MODELS ARE EAGER TO CONVECT IN A SHALLOW AND WEAK ISENTROPIC REGIME...THOUGH THIS POSSIBILITY SEEMS OVERDONE GIVEN NO BACKGROUND ASSISTANCE AND AN EASTERLY LLJ TAKING AIM WELL TO OUR SW ALONG THE UPPER TRANS PECOS. A LINGERING SWATH OF MID-LEVEL MOISTURE EVIDENT ON WATER VAPOR ACROSS SRN NM SEEMS A MORE LIKELY LOCATION FOR POPS IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS...SO POPS TONIGHT WERE REMOVED OVER ALL BUT OUR FAR SW COUNTIES. ASIDE FROM NUDGING HIGH TEMPS UPWARD TODAY...NO MAJOR CHANGES TO TEMPS WERE NECESSARY. LONG TERM... CONCERNS ABOUT PRECIPITATION CHANCES CONTINUE INTO THE DAY MONDAY AS THE STALLED BOUNDARY STARTS TO MOVE NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT THROUGH THE DAY. AGAIN THERE IS A LACK OF ANY KIND OF SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING TO AID IN LIFTING PARCELS THROUGH THE DAY. AS THE WARM FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA...MODELS DO INCREASE MID-LEVEL MOISTURE SOME RESULTING IN AT LEAST A BIT OF ELEVATED INSTABILITY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE FRONT MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH THE DAY...ANY LOW-LEVEL FOCUS FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT NORTH AND EASTWARD AND HAVE DROPPED POPS AND ADJUSTED THEM TO FAVOR THE ROLLING PLAINS BY MONDAY EVENING WHERE DEEPER MOISTURE WILL RESIDE. THE NAM ALSO HOLDS THE FRONT UP ACROSS THE ROLLING PLAINS INTO TUESDAY MORNING WITH WEAK PRESSURE RISES BUT CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME LESS AND LESS FAVORABLE THROUGH THE DAY AS THE RIDGE BUILDS BACK EASTWARD AND AS A STRENGTHENING UPPER- LEVEL JET DEVELOPS EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA INCREASING SUBSIDENCE ALOFT AT THE SAME TIME. FORECAST FOR THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK IS SEASONABLY HOT AND DRY WITH THE RIDGE GRADUALLY BUILDING IN ALOFT...WITH HEIGHTS AT THEIR GREATEST ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. A SLIGHT SHIFT IN THE RIDGE TO THE WEST IS STILL EXPECTED FOR THE END OF THE WEEK WHICH WILL PLACE US IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. THERE ARE STILL INDICATIONS OF A COUPLE OF SHORTWAVES MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION FOR THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT WHICH COULD BRING A RETURN OF SLIGHT CHANCE POPS BOTH THOSE DAYS ALONG WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER HIGH TEMPERATURES. THE PROSPECTS FOR ANOTHER COOL FRONT FOR THE END OF THE WEEK DO NOT LOOK QUITE AS GOOD AS THE GFS HAS BACKED OFF ON THIS POSSIBILITY WHILE THE ECMWF HINTS AT A VERY WEAK BOUNDARY ARRIVING SATURDAY. JORDAN LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 77 58 86 62 / 10 10 20 10 TULIA 78 60 85 63 / 10 10 20 20 PLAINVIEW 81 60 85 64 / 10 10 20 10 LEVELLAND 83 63 86 65 / 20 10 20 10 LUBBOCK 84 63 87 66 / 20 10 20 10 DENVER CITY 86 65 87 65 / 20 20 20 10 BROWNFIELD 86 65 87 67 / 20 10 20 10 CHILDRESS 84 67 87 67 / 10 10 20 20 SPUR 88 67 88 67 / 20 10 20 20 ASPERMONT 93 71 92 71 / 20 10 20 20 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 33
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 610 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 TXZ021>044-241100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 610 AM CDT SUN AUG 23 2015 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 AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 17 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:41 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A large apple tree was toppled which heavily damaged a fence. Dime size hail also occurred in addition to one inch of rain.
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