Late this afternoon, a pulse thunderstorm drifted south along the Lubbock and Hockley County line. 42 inches in just five minutes.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Late this afternoon, a pulse thunderstorm drifted south along the Lubbock and Hockley County line. A series of traveling downbursts accompanied this storm from Reese Center south to extreme southwest Lubbock County, along with torrential rainfall rates of up to 0.42 inches in just five minutes.
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 7, 1:44 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 244 PM CDT Mon Aug 7 2017 .DISCUSSION... Afternoon radar analysis showed a small MCS developing over the northern TX Panhandle moving to the SSE. Short term models keep this complex together, bringing it into the FA between 2000 and 2100Z. While the heaviest activity is expected to remain west of the I-27 corridor, a few places to the east may receive some of the stratiform precip with this almost PS type MCS. By 4Z, the brunt of the activity should be moving into the Permian Basin, though some light shower activity may fill in overnight. Therefore, left slight mention PoPs in through the morning. Tomorrow, much like today, brings easterly winds with moisture lingering, but a good lifting mechanism will still be absent from the picture. We'll once again be left with convection firing from the high terrain of NM/CO from minor short wave activity and propagating our way off of NW flow for the most part. However, the position of the high, and this will be true of Wednesday and Thursday especially, will actually steer the NW flow to favor more of the TX Panhandle, leaving much of our area to miss out on beneficial rain. As this happens, the lack of rain, as well as fewer clouds, will lead to warming temperatures through the rest of the week. Models split at the end of the week on the fate of our NW flow. The GFS would be a more favorable solution with it keeping NW flow throughout the weekend as a front is progged to push through on Sunday. This would greatly enhance our rain chances and help keep temperatures on the cooler side. The ECMWF goes more zonal on Friday, staying so through the weekend, which would lead to a drier and warmer solution. Cotton crops around here would mostly likely favor the GFS at this point. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 74/74
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 302 PM CDT Mon Aug 7 2017 TXZ021>044-082015- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 302 PM CDT Mon Aug 7 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains...Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight A complex of thunderstorms will move from north to south across the extreme southwest Panhandle and the western South Plains late this afternoon and evening. These storms will have a small potential to produce wind gusts to 65 mph and heavy rainfall that may lead to some localized flooding. These threats are greatest to the west of a Tulia to Tahoka line. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is unlikely to be needed this afternoon and evening.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:24 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet at Reese Center. This same storm continued moving south and produced similar winds at a NWS employee's home south of Wolfforth.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet southwest of Wolfforth measured 1.54 inches of rain in 20 minutes; 0.42 inches of which fell in just five minutes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 705844, 705849.