21 inches.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
A broken line of thunderstorms crawled south across Parmer County late this night accompanied by one severe wind gust near Friona and locally heavy rain up to 1.21 inches.
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 29, 7:41 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 841 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2016 .UPDATE... Updated to boost PoPs later this evening and overnight mainly along and north of Highway 70. Also lowered min temps a few degrees in these areas for anticipated precip and/or cooling potential from outflow. Recent maturation of storms into an MCS from near Boise City southwest to Fort Sumner should continue to benefit from improving southerly inflow/LLJ development. The exception to this appears to be along the southwestern half of this MCS where IR cloud top cooling has been anemic compared to the NW Panhandle coincident with a maximum in MLCAPE. Extrapolation from regional radars and recent HRRR trends favor isolated-to-scattered storms arriving first in our NW zones near 10 PM before a more solidified area of storms affects areas farther east. Severe threat looks to remain isolated at best with wind the sole threat for now. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 622 PM CDT FRI JUL 29 2016/ AVIATION... VFR with southerly winds of 10-15 knots. Line of TS in northeast NM moving southeast is anticipated to weaken along its southern half after sunset, while the remaining portion should persist overnight near a NW-SE front in the Panhandle. CDS does stand a fair chance of TS after midnight, so inserted a TEMPO TS for a few hours. PVW and LBB may see spotty TS develop after 06Z along any outflow boundaries, but this very conditional at the moment. && .LUB Watches/Warnings/Advisories... None. && 93
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 553 AM CDT FRI JUL 29 2016 TXZ021>044-301100- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 553 AM CDT FRI JUL 29 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT, PRIMARILY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. A COUPLE OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE SMALL HAIL, WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE POTENTIAL FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:41 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station located two miles northeast of Friona.
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