Isolated thunderstorms were able to develop along a surface trough across the northern South Plains as temperatures warmed well into the 90s. One of these produced a severe wind gust near Amherst (Lamb County).
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Isolated thunderstorms were able to develop along a surface trough across the northern South Plains as temperatures warmed well into the 90s. One of these produced a severe wind gust near Amherst (Lamb 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 Aug 5, 2:37 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 337 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 .SHORT TERM... DESPITE AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE EXPANDING OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST OVER THE AREA TODAY...MID-LEVEL TEMPS HAVE REMAINED JUST COOL ENOUGH TO KEEP THE ATMOSPHERE FROM BEING COMPLETELY CAPPED. IN ADDITION...A SURFACE TROUGH HS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE WESTERN SPLNS...STRETCHING NEWD INTO THE SRN TX PANHANDLE. DEEP MIXING AND CONVERGENCE WITHIN THIS TROUGH HAS ALREADY BEEN SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE SOME HIGH-BASED MOIST CONVECTION ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL NM INTO THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AS OF 230 PM. HIGH-RES GUIDANCE SUPPORTS THIS POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SHOWERS AND T-STORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING AND WE HAVE ADDED A MENTION OF THIS TO THE FORECAST FOR ROUGHLY THE NRN AND WRN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. MEASURABLE RAIN SHOULD BE VERY SPOTTY AND SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE STORMS. ANY STORM ACTIVITY SHOULD WIND DOWN QUICKLY AROUND SUNSET AS SURFACE- BASED INSTABILITY WANES. THIS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY A CLEARING TREND AND QUITE MILD CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. ON THURSDAY...THE UPPER RIDGE SHOULD TAKE A FIRMER GRIP ACROSS THE REGION WITH SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPS EXPECTED THROUGH THE DEPTH OF THE TROPOSPHERE. AS FOR OUR TEMPS NEAR GROUND LEVEL...WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN TEMPS REACH UP TO 105 DEGREES IN THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON /PER THE WEST TEXAS MESONET SITE AT ASPERMONT/ AND WE EXPECT TO ADD ANOTHER DEGREE OR TWO ON THIS TOMORROW. LUBBOCK IS 98 DEGREES AT 3 PM...AND WE THINK THERE IS A STRONG CHANCE OF HITTING 100 FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR THURSDAY AFTERNOON /IF WE DO NOT QUITE MAKE IT THIS AFTERNOON/. .LONG TERM... THE LONG TERM CONSISTS OF THE HIGH PRESSURE TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH SIDE OF THE CAPROCK IT WANTS TO RESIDE OVER. FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...IT APPEARS IT WILL TAKE UP RESIDENCE ON OUR WESTERN SIDE...AND THOUGH TEMPS LOOK TO HIT THE DREADED CENTURY MARK ON THE CAPROCK...HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA THANKFULLY WILL NOT BE MET. THEN SATURDAY...THE HIGH IS ON THE MOVE EASTBOUND I-20. THE QUESTION IS JUST HOW FAR WILL IT TRAVEL. IF THE WESTERN EDGE OF IT CLEARS OUR AREA BY LATE SUNDAY...WE MAY SEE ENOUGH MID-LEVEL MOISTURE MOVE IN TO ALLOW SOME WEAKLY FORCED PRECIPITATION TO ROUND THE EDGE INTO OUR NWN COUNTIES. ATTM...CONFIDENCE IS TOO LOW TO PUT ANY SORT OF MENTIONABLE POPS IN...BUT THIS LOOKS TO BE OUR ONLY HOPE OF PRECIP DURING THE PERIOD. AFTER THAT...THE HIGH DOES AN ABOUT FACE AND SPREADS BACK ACROSS MOST OF WTX AND THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 68 99 68 97 / 10 0 0 0 TULIA 69 99 71 98 / 10 0 0 0 PLAINVIEW 70 99 72 98 / 10 0 0 0 LEVELLAND 71 100 72 99 / 10 0 0 0 LUBBOCK 73 100 74 100 / 10 0 0 0 DENVER CITY 70 100 70 99 / 10 0 0 0 BROWNFIELD 71 101 72 99 / 10 0 0 0 CHILDRESS 74 103 77 105 / 10 0 0 0 SPUR 73 101 75 102 / 0 0 0 0 ASPERMONT 76 105 77 105 / 0 0 0 0 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 33/74
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 347 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 TXZ021>044-062100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 347 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL APPROACH HEAT ADVISORY LEVELS THURSDAY AFTERNOON...105 DEGREES ON THE CAPROCK...110 DEGREES OFF THE CAPROCK. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:09 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet station near Amherst recorded a 61 mph wind gust as a thunderstorm moved overhead.
Citizens reported nickel sized hail underneath a strong thunderstorm moving from southwest of Halfway to west of Hale Center.
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