Scattered thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the eighth within a surface pressure trough across the western Texas Panhandle into the far western South Plains and eastern New Mexico. One of these storms became severe as it moved near Muleshoe (Bailey County) measuring a wind gust to 72 mph.
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Scattered thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the eighth within a surface pressure trough across the western Texas Panhandle into the far western South Plains and eastern New Mexico. One of these storms became severe as it moved near Muleshoe (Bailey County) measuring a wind gust to 72 mph.
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 8, 1:04 PM CST, 56 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 204 PM CDT Thu Aug 8 2019 .DISCUSSION... Center of the continental summer high pressure ridge was directly across the Texas South Plains this afternoon and will shift just east along the Red River Saturday and Sunday. The upper low off the west coast still is expected to eject through the Pacific Northwest Saturday then weaken while skirting the US/Canadian border Sunday and Monday. This will flatten the upper ridge and pull with it a subtropical wave that will drag over the Panhandle and South Plains late Monday and Tuesday. By mid to late next week, we expect the upper ridge to rebuild nearby as the next Pacific low approaches the west coast. Not much has changed. Another weak convective disturbance may emerge again this evening from the Front Range where thunderstorms already were generating and pull east through western Kansas and the Oklahoma and northern Texas Panhandles. As last night, we think there is potential for an increase in thunderstorms overnight mainly just to our north, and activity should remain slightly more north with the anticyclone center further north as well. We are holding on to low thunder chances overnight across the northern South Plains and extreme southern Texas Panhandle. With the strong heating again today, forecast soundings support potential for high-based thunderstorms with inverted-V soundings and perhaps isolated strong wind gusts. Somewhat drier mid level moisture will envelop most of the area late Friday through the weekend, though we will retain low thunder chances near our western border areas in particular where deeper moisture and low level convergence both will remain more favorable. Hot temperatures also likely to remain with upper 90s to around 100 on the Caprock and to around 105 over the Rolling Plains. Forecasts continue to indicate just shy of Heat Advisory levels, and nearest to that criteria over the Rolling Plains. The monsoon moisture plume will thin as it approaches Monday and passes overhead Tuesday. Latest solutions are indicating less thunderstorm coverage than previously as the subtropical wave drags through. We will retain at least low thunder mention until this trend is confirmed. Temperatures are still expected to dip slightly by mid week. By later next week, there is less confidence with a fair amount of inconsistency where moisture will reside. Presumably, with ridging near or just to the west, this would favor a return of low thunder chances mainly near the New Mexico border and also warming temperatures. RMcQueen && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 05/99
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 204 PM CDT Thu Aug 8 2019 TXZ021>044-090715- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 204 PM CDT Thu Aug 8 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight A few strong or briefly severe wind gusts near 60 mph are possible near thunderstorms mainly across the northern South Plains into the extreme southern Texas Panhandle. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Hazardous weather conditions are not expected.
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Muleshoe measured a wind gust to 72 mph.
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