Scattered thunderstorms developed late this afternoon in Swisher and Briscoe Counties and proceeded to intensify as they moved into Hall County. One of these storms became a supercell and tracked due east across northern Hall and northern Childress counties for the next two hours accompanied by hail at times as large as tennis balls.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed late this afternoon in Swisher and Briscoe Counties and proceeded to intensify as they moved into Hall County. One of these storms became a supercell and tracked due east across northern Hall and northern Childress counties for the next two hours accompanied by hail at times as large as tennis balls. Damage was primarily focused to storm spotter and chaser vehicles, some of which reported shattered windshields.
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 Apr 3, 1:51 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 251 PM CDT Wed Apr 3 2019 .DISCUSSION... The main impact periods will be this afternoon for severe weather with another chance of thunderstorms Friday night into Saturday. Dewpoints have increased to the low 50s this afternoon off the Caprock. The dryline is currently along I-27 and is expected to continue to move east through the afternoon. East of the dryline in the southeastern Texas Panhandle and Rolling Plains is where thunderstorms are expected to initiate around 22-23Z. Thinking has not changed much since the morning update, with increased SRH and a low level jet, the severe potential is focused on large hail and damaging winds. Models continue to show discrete suppercells in Childress, Cottle and King counties around 00Z moving northeast. After the upper level trough moves out tonight, ridging will remain in place through Friday. Starting Friday an upper level trough will move across northern Mexico before lifting north across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. There are still some differences, the GFS closes the low while the ECMWF keeps the wave open. Solutions do agree on scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday night and Saturday. PoPs are highest 30-60% on Friday night then taper off to 30% in the Rolling Plains on Saturday. Upper level ridging will stretch across much of the western US next week. Temperatures will warm to the mid 80s which is about 10 degrees above normal. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 08/99
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1103 AM CDT Wed Apr 3 2019 TXZ021>044-040415- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1103 AM CDT Wed Apr 3 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Very warm temperatures and dry southwesterly winds at 25 to 30 mph will create elevated fire weather conditions for the South Plains and extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle this afternoon. A fire danger statement is in effect. Isolated thunderstorms may be possible across the northern Rolling Plains and far southeastern Texas Panhandle late this afternoon through tonight. A few of the storms will become severe with large hail to tennis ball size, wind gusts to 70 mph, and maybe an isolated tornado. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday The probability of widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be requested across portions of Childress, Hall, Briscoe, Cottle, and Motley Counties. Jordan
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:08 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A 12-mile long swath of severe hail ranging from quarter to golf ball size affected a strip of far north-central Hall County. The hail cracked a storm chaser's windshield on Highway 287 near Memphis, but additional damage to vehicles in the area was not known.
The hailstorm that began in northern Hall County continued to track east across far northern Childress County, this time with hailstones as large as tennis balls at times. However, the majority of the severe hail reports were generally golf ball size or smaller. No damage information was available.
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