Late in the afternoon on the 29th, scattered thunderstorms developed across eastern New Mexico and moved into West Texas. Strong instability allowed several of these storms to become severe with strong wind gusts spanning from Lake Alan Henry (Garza County) and White River Lake (Crosby County) to Childress (Childress County).
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Late in the afternoon on the 29th, scattered thunderstorms developed across eastern New Mexico and moved into West Texas. Strong instability allowed several of these storms to become severe with strong wind gusts spanning from Lake Alan Henry (Garza County) and White River Lake (Crosby County) to Childress (Childress 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 Jun 29, 5:23 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 623 PM CDT Fri Jun 29 2018 .AVIATION... VFR. Scattered showers and occasional storms will continue through the evening and early night, generally on the Caprock. The fleeting and disorganized nature to storms cast heavy doubt on isolating any specific times for thunder at LBB and PVW at this time. Activity should wane considerably after midnight before resuming Saturday afternoon. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 305 PM CDT Fri Jun 29 2018/ DISCUSSION... A plume of moisture extends northward through Mexico into West Texas. Showers and thunderstorms have initialized near an upper level low over El Paso this afternoon. Satellite imagery has shown an increase in the cumulus field across the South Plains over the past few hours. High res models continue to show isolated showers and thunderstorms this afternoon firing along the state line where there is surface convergence. The SPC mesoanalysis shows mixed level Cape around 1500-2500 J/kg this afternoon so any storms that form could have gusty winds and small hail. Coverage is expected to increase overnight with showers and thunderstorms stretching northward from Mexico moving northeast overnight. PoPs tonight will be 30-50% on the Caprock. As the upper low moves off to the north, precip coverage will decrease. Models continue to show a front approaching the Texas Panhandle on Saturday evening though there are some differences in timing and how far south the front makes it. The NAM is the most progressive and pushes through front through the CWA while the GFS and EURO stall it somewhere across the South Plains. There are also differences in how long the moisture sticks around. For now have PoPs 20-30% through Sunday. Temperatures should drop from around 100 to the low 90s for the weekend. Monday through Wednesday will be fairly dry with temperatures climbing back to the upper 90s. The next feature to watch will be an upper level wave moving east to west along the Gulf Coast next week. Solutions have a large area of moisture across central and south Texas by Thursday but the question will be if the precip will make it this far north and west. For now have continued a slight chance of rain for Thursday and Friday. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 93
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 502 AM CDT Fri Jun 29 2018 TXZ021>044-292215- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 502 AM CDT Fri Jun 29 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Scattered thunderstorm activity is expected this afternoon and evening, mainly along and to the west of the Interstate 27 and Highway 87 corridors. Wind gusts to 60 mph, hail up to the size of nickels, and locally heavy rainfall will be possible with the strongest storms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday There will be a chance of thunderstorms across the whole outlook area Sunday afternoon and evening. The strongest storms will be capable of producing strong gusty winds, small hail and brief heavy rainfall. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:36 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Lake Alan Henry measured a wind gust to 74 mph.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site approximately six miles northwest of White River Lake measured a wind gust to 63 mph.
The ASOS at Childress Municipal Airport measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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