Scattered thunderstorms developed this afternoon ahead of a weak cold front. One of these storms produced a measured wind gust to 58 mph in Caprock Canyons State Park.
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Scattered thunderstorms developed this afternoon ahead of a weak cold front. One of these storms produced a measured wind gust to 58 mph in Caprock Canyons State Park.
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 8, 2:17 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 317 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 2015 .SHORT TERM... CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED QUICKLY WITHIN THE SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS AS TEMPERATURES WARMED ABOVE 90 DEGREES. THE CONVECTION IS IN A MODERATELY UNSTABLE BUT LOW SHEAR ENVIRONMENT...WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO DISORGANIZED...PULSEY TYPE CELLS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MICROBURSTS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD WITHIN A BELT OF RELATIVELY RICH MID-LEVEL MOISTURE...PWATS RUNNING ABOUT 1.4 TO1.7 INCHES...AND CAN DROP LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING WILL HELP KEEP THUNDERSTORM CHANCES GOING OVERNIGHT...ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN THE SHORT-RANGE GUIDANCE REGARDING THE TIMING OF THE FRONT AND COVERAGE OF T-STORM ACTIVITY. THE BEST RAIN CHANCES WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THERE ARE ALSO SOME INDICATIONS OF LOW STRATUS DEVELOPMENT WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. ON WEDNESDAY...EASTERLY FLOW UP TO ABOUT 700 MB AND NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL RESULT IN COOLER TEMPERATURES...ALTHOUGH THE EXACT READINGS WILL DEPEND UPON THE EXTENT OF THE CLOUD COVER. IN GENERAL...WE ARE EXPECT HIGHS TO BE MAINLY IN THE 80S...LIKELY ENDING OUR 10 DAY STREAK OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. RAIN CHANCES LOOK PRETTY SLIM BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH MORE STABLE CONDITIONS TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT. HOWEVER...SOME WEAK ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE WITHIN THE SLOPING FRONTAL ZONE AND A MINOR DISTURBANCE ALOFT MAY BE SUFFICIENT FOR A FEW SHOWERS ACROSS OUR SRN AND WRN COUNTIES. .LONG TERM... FURTHER CHANCES FOR UNSETTLED WEATHER AWAIT THE EXTENDED... PARTICULARLY LATER THIS WEEK AS TROUGHING AMPLIFIES ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CONUS AND DELIVERS ANOTHER COLD FRONT TO THE SOUTH PLAINS BY LATE FRIDAY. A MUCH GREATER MERIDIONAL COMPONENT TO THIS TROUGH ALONG WITH POST-FRONTAL CLOUDS WOULD POINT TO NOTABLE COOLING FOR SATURDAY AFTER AOA NORMAL HIGHS FOR THU AND FRI AND MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS. POPS WERE NUDGED UP ON FRIDAY AFTN AND EVENING AS THE FRONT BACKDOORS INTO THE REGION AND INTERACTS WITH A SLOW WWD RETURN OF LL MOISTURE ON EASTERLY PRE-FRONTAL WINDS. DECENT MID-LEVEL N-NW FLOW ON THE ORDER OF 30 KNOTS COULD HELP BREED SOME ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE MODES AND PERHAPS GIVE RISE TO A WEAK MCS. BUT WITH THIS STRONGER NLY FLOW ALOFT COMES A MORE PROGRESSIVE NATURE TO THE FRONT AND COOL SURFACE RIDGE WHICH TRANSLATE INTO A SMALLER WINDOW FOR POPS...SO PRECIP CHANCES WERE SCALED BACK ON SATURDAY AS THE FRONT STALLS FROM ERN NM SE TO THE HILL COUNTRY. GFS IS QUITE BULLISH WITH QPF SAT NIGHT IN PART DUE TO A NOCTURNAL LLJ BOOSTING ISENTROPIC LIFT POLEWARD OF THE BOUNDARY...BUT THIS SCENARIO RECEIVES MIXED SUPPORT FROM THE REMAINING MODELS AND FOR NOW WILL BE DISMISSED. BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY...THE UPPER FLOW IS PROGGED TO TRANSITION FROM NW TO SW AS RIDGING COLLAPSES ACROSS THE DESERT SW. UNFORTUNATELY... THE TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC LOOKS TO TREND QUIET DURING THIS TIME WHICH WILL DO LITTLE TO PREVENT A RETURN TO BLO NORMAL PRECIP CHANCES AND ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 33/93
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 337 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 2015 TXZ034-082100- HOCKLEY TX- 337 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN HOCKLEY COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT... AT 336 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LEVELLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LEVELLAND...SMYER...ROPESVILLE AND OPDYKE WEST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3339 10247 3360 10244 3369 10208 3339 10208 TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 283DEG 16KT 3350 10232
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:47 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Measured by the Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station.
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