A complex of decaying thunderstorms moving out of eastern New Mexico led to several severe wind gusts in the extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle from late in the evening on the eighth to early in the morning on the ninth.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
A complex of decaying thunderstorms moving out of eastern New Mexico led to several severe wind gusts in the extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle from late in the evening on the eighth to early in the morning on the ninth.
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 8, 5:10 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 610 PM CDT Fri Jun 8 2018 .AVIATION... VFR conditions in place at all three terminals but forecast continues to remain highly uncertain tonight. Areas of showers and thunderstorms continue to develop in E NM and is slowly moving east. There remains the possibility that these thunderstorm could move through KLBB/KPVW later tonight. However, timing remains highly uncertain and will have to amend TAFs once the situation evolves. Any thunderstorms that develop should dissipate after midnight leaving behind light and variable wind into Saturday. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 28
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1023 PM CDT Fri Jun 8 2018 TXZ021>044-091530- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1023 PM CDT Fri Jun 8 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Tonight A complex of thunderstorms is expected to move southeastward out of eastern New Mexico. Some of these storms could become strong to possibly severe with hail to the size of quarters and wind gusts to 60 mph possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected tonight.
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:20 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Friona measured a wind gust to 61 mph.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Dimmitt measured a wind gust to 66 mph.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Happy measured a wind gust to 64 mph.
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: 750261, 750262, 750263.