Widely scattered thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the sixth across the South Plains. One of these storms became severe producing a severe wind gust to 60 mph at a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Sundown in Cochran County.
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Widely scattered thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the sixth across the South Plains. One of these storms became severe producing a severe wind gust to 60 mph at a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Sundown in Cochran 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 Jul 6, 5:14 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 614 PM CDT Sat Jul 6 2019 .AVIATION... A weak outflow boundary moving through the region early this evening may initiate isolated thunderstorms at KLBB or KPVW but chances and coverage will be too low to mention in the TAF at the moment. Better chances of scattered thunderstorms will exist on Sunday afternoon at all TAF sites. However, there is high uncertainty on coverage of thunderstorm activity this far out in the forecast. With moist air in place, there is a low chance of MVFR CIGS at KLBB and KPVW early Sunday morning. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 254 PM CDT Sat Jul 6 2019/ DISCUSSION... Morning convection set off an outflow boundary which is now situated across the Permian Basin eastward to the deep Rolling Plains. Another boundary has slowly been sinking southward out of the TX Panhandle, and as of 19Z was draped across the northern tier of counties in the Lubbock forecast area. The southern boundary is already serving as a focal point for afternoon convection, and the northern boundary is expected to do the same as it sinks into moisture-rich air with surface Td in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Mid- level moisture also shows to be present on sounding analysis...in fact, moisture will be somewhat plentiful the next few days before the ridge can figure itself out. PWATs are in excess of 1", somewhat of an oddity for this point in the summer. Several weakness in the ridge will serve to give us chances of precip through Monday, especially one coming out of Mexico on Monday. This one could serve as our last major precip chance for a few days. Models have once again split on the decision of a clean or dirty ridge. An upper trough moving out of British Columbia seems to have them in a pickle as it deepens across the northern tier of states; however, they agree the dryline will push well east of the area on Tuesday and remain there through at least Wednesday. Models hint at another pattern of disturbed weather towards the end of the week as moisture may have a chance to slip around the western edge of the high once again. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 01
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 906 PM CDT Sat Jul 6 2019 TXZ021>044-071415- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 906 PM CDT Sat Jul 6 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Tonight Pockets of very heavy rain will result in flooding tonight. A few strong or briefly severe thunderstorms also will result in wind gusts approaching 60 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday A risk of isolated strong to severe thunderstorms will exist on Sunday and Sunday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed today or tonight.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:09 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Sundown measured a wind gust to 60 mph.
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