A slow-moving line of thunderstorms exited eastern New Mexico this evening and produced heavy rainfall and strong winds across the western South Plains and southwest Texas Panhandle. Severe winds from a microburst were measured at Lazbuddie.
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A slow-moving line of thunderstorms exited eastern New Mexico this evening and produced heavy rainfall and strong winds across the western South Plains and southwest Texas Panhandle. Severe winds from a microburst were measured at Lazbuddie. In Cochran County, training storms for nearly three hours produced an estimated four to six inches of rain in a swath about seven miles west of Morton and Lehman. Late this night, Texas Department of Transportation reported all roads in northern Cochran County had flooded stretches with some sections of Highway 114 closed due to two feet of standing water. A portion of Farm-to-Market Road 1169 southwest of Morton suffered some damage and was flooded for four days.
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 Jul 9, 5:36 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 636 PM CDT THU JUL 9 2015 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS THRU THE OVERNIGHT LOOK TO BE INTERRUPTED BY SOME TS PRIMARILY AT PVW WHERE THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY NOW LOOKS TO EXIST AS STORMS SPREAD NE FROM E-CNTRL NM. THEREAFTER...ANOTHER ROUND OF EARLY-DAY MVFR CIGS APPEARS LIKELY AT LBB AND PVW WITH A CONDITIONAL THREAT AT CDS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 320 PM CDT THU JUL 9 2015/ SHORT TERM... ONCE AGAIN...OVERNIGHT CONVECTION HAS PUT A WRINKLE IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE OVERNIGHT STORMS LOOK TO RUN FROM THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE DOWN ALONG THE EDGE OF THE CAPROCK BASED ON VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY. TEMPERATURES HAVE STRUGGLED TO WARM WITH THE LOW CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE REGION BUT HAVE MANAGED TO GET INTO THE LOW TO MID 80S. MODEL FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW THAT SURFACE TEMPS NEED TO BE AT OR ABOVE 85 DEGREES FOR CONVECTION TO BREAK A WEAK CAP OVER THE REGION SO IT REMAINS VERY MARGINAL WHETHER WE WILL SEE CONVECTION OR NOT DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA. ALSO LIMITING THE CHANCES ARE LOWER BULK SHEAR VALUES AS THE JET HAS SHIFTED BACK WEST OF THE REGION. REGARDLESS...THE MAJORITY OF THE HIGH RESOLUTION MODELS BREAK OUT PRECIPITATION ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AS WELL AS NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. THIS SPREADS SOUTH AND EAST THROUGH THE LATE EVENING AND ARRIVE AROUND LUBBOCK AT VARYING TIMES BETWEEN 9 PM AND MIDNIGHT. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES HAVE INCREASED A BIT SO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES TO BE A POSSIBILITY AND ALONG WITH THAT THE THREAT OF DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. HAVE BROUGHT CHANCE POPS SOUTHEAST INTO THE LUBBOCK AREA BUT KEPT THE ROLLING PLAINS DRY FOR TONIGHT. LEFT OUT MENTION OF SEVERE WEATHER BUT WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ANY ISOLATED REPORTS. ALSO LIKE THE LAST ROUND OF CONVECTION...EXPECT TO SEE ANY OVERNIGHT CONVECTION FALL APART IN THE MORNING IF IT MANAGES TO MAKE IT THAT LONG. WE SHOULD SEE TEMPERATURES FAIRLY CLOSE TO TODAY AS LOW CLOUDS REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH MUCH OF THE MORNING. MODELS ARE ONCE AGAIN SHOWING THAT HEIGHTS ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE THROUGH THE DAY SO WE WILL SEE IF THAT WILL HELP TO BUMP TEMPERATURES OR NOT. WILL GO WITH THE COOLER SIDE OF GUIDANCE FOR HIGHS ONCE AGAIN THINKING THAT WE WILL STILL HAVE AMPLE MOISTURE AND HEIGHT INCREASES ARE NOT AS MUCH AS FORECAST FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. JORDAN LONG TERM... MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE CONSISTENT WITH DRIER PATTERN UPCOMING FOR THE WEEKEND AND MOST OF NEXT WEEK. MOIST MONSOONAL FLOW WILL PERSIST LATE FRIDAY WITH SCATTERED COVERAGE OF STORMS EXPECTED...AS WEAK DISTURBANCES AND A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUE IN AN ENVIRONMENT WITH WEAK SHEAR. THESE MORE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY TO BE LIMITED TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST ZONES NEAR THE NEW MEXICO BORDER...WITH COVERAGE SHRINKING CONSIDERABLY FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. THIS AS UPPER HIGH CENTERED OVER EAST TEXAS AND LOUISIANA AMPLIFIES AND RETROGRDES WESTWARD. THE NAM IS A LITTLE LESS AGRESSIVE WITH THE POSITION BUT GFS AND ECMWF ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE CENTER OF THE RIDGE SHIFTING OVER WEST TEXAS BY SUNDAY. THIS SHOULD SQUASH ALL CONVECTION AS THE ATMOSPHERE DRIES AND INSTABILITY WANES. VERY LITTLE CHANGE TO THIS PATTERN THROUGH MIDWEEK NEXT WEEK. THERE MAY BE A SLIGHT WEAKENING OF THE UPPER HIGH BY THURSDAY AS DISTURBANCES RIDE OVER THE TOP OF THE RIDGE FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS BUT ANY CONVECTION ABLE TO NAVIGATE AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE SHOULD REMAIN WELL NORTH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS/SOUTHERN PANHANDLE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB WELL INTO THE 90S FROM SUNDAY ONWARD...BUT AGAIN BACKED DOWN GUIDANCE HIGHS A COUPLE OF DEGREES EARLY NEXT WEEK GIVEN ABUNDANT SOIL MOISTURE AND STANDING WATER ACROSS THE AREA WHICH SHOULD ABSORB SOME HEAT VIA EVAPORATION...FOR A WHILE AT LEAST. WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL. JAMES && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 93
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 658 PM CDT THU JUL 9 2015 TXZ021>044-110000- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 658 PM CDT THU JUL 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WILL OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND PANHANDLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT ACCOMPANIED BY POCKETS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. WIND GUSTS NEAR 70 MPH AND HAIL AROUND GOLF BALL SIZE WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY.
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:58 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Measured by a KVII-TV schoolnet anemometer at the Lazbuddie High School.
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