A lingering storm system across the Desert Southwest was the primary instigator for this activity. As the storm system finally moved closer, it fueled a final and dramatic round of thunderstorms that raced across the South Plains and Rolling Plains on the evening of the fifth.
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A lingering storm system across the Desert Southwest was the primary instigator for this activity. As the storm system finally moved closer, it fueled a final and dramatic round of thunderstorms that raced across the South Plains and Rolling Plains on the evening of the fifth. The thunderstorms initially developed across eastern New Mexico and the northwest South Plains. These storms quickly evolved into a broken line as they raced eastward across the southern Texas Panhandle, South Plains and Rolling Plains. Strong winds pushed out ahead of the line of storms. A wall of wind and dust, in the form of a haboob, rolled across the central and eastern South Plains and off the Caprock. The visibility dropped to near zero in spots as the haboob moved through north-central Lubbock County, which created dangerous travel. Several dust storm warnings were issued in addition to severe thunderstorm warnings.
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 5, 2:10 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 310 PM CDT Wed Jun 5 2019 .UPDATE... The upper low/trough that has been lingering across the Desert Southwest is finally on the move, spinning its way eastward across New Mexico early this afternoon. Lift in advance of the low was already supporting the development of numerous thunderstorms over the higher terrain of eastern New Mexico. This activity should congeal into a MCS or two (cluster and/or line) as it propagates eastward across the CWA through the evening hours. Locally heavy rainfall and strong/damaging wind gusts will be possible with this activity, supported by modest instability (MLCAPE of 1000-2000 J/kg) and marginal deep layer shear (0-6 km bulk shear close to 30 knots). The primary limiting factor will be relatively weak wind fields and storm relative inflow, though the upper level support should offset this somewhat. Even so, we have gone ahead and added a severe and heavy rain mention to the grids through the evening hours. In advance of this activity, we have already seen isolated to widely scattered convection develop locally on residual boundaries, primarily in the Rolling Plains, while more activity was just forming over the northwest South Plains. This activity could briefly pulse to marginally severe levels, though locally heavy rain and lightning will be the primary risks with this activity. The upper low will be shifting off to the east on Thursday. Isolated to scattered wrap-around showers/storms could linger across the northeastern/eastern counties through much of the day as the cold core low passes. Drier and warmer conditions will follow late week into the first half of the weekend as shortwave ridging builds over. Highs by Saturday will climb well into the 90s, especially west of the dryline which should sharpen somewhere near the edge of the Caprock by late afternoon. Warm temperatures aloft should keep the dryline capped through Saturday. A sharp/deep trough traversing Canada and the northern tier of the lower 48 will then send a cold front southward, passing through the South Plains on Sunday. The timing/speed of the front could allow PoPs to essentially "jump" the CWA, but we have maintained a minimal thunder mention for now. Otherwise, cooler air will build in behind the front, complete with a round of post-frontal stratus that could linger well into Monday. Temperatures by Monday will be stuck in the 70s for most locations. Depending on how far south the front pushes, better moisture/instability may reside downstate into early next week. Even so, an embedded disturbance passing in developing northwest flow aloft could potentially support thunder chances Monday night. Not sold on this, but have maintained low PoPs over this period. Northwest flow aloft will persist into the middle of week and this will keep at least periodic storm chances in the forecast through the end of the forecast, favoring the overnight hours. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 23
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1116 AM CDT Wed Jun 5 2019 TXZ021>044-061200- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1116 AM CDT Wed Jun 5 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon across the South Plains and Rolling Plains. The main threat will be hail up to 1 inch, damaging wind gusts to 70 mph, and heavy rainfall producing flooding. Storms will continue to develop and organize into a line that will move across the eastern South Plains into the Rolling Plains late this evening into tonight. The severe threat will transition to damaging wind gusts to 70 mph and isolated heavy rainfall producing localized flooding. The storms should move east of the Rolling Plains around or shortly after midnight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be requested this afternoon into tonight. Jordan
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:58 UTC.
9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Friona measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Anton measured a wind gust to 59 mph.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Wolfforth measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
Strong outflow boundary winds ahead of a thunderstorm complex produced a widespread haboob in Lubbock County. At 1723 CST, law enforcement reported near zero visibility along Interstate 27 north of New Deal. Also, the contract weather observer at Lubbock International Airport reported one-quarter mile visibility at the same time.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Plainview measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured a peak wind gust to 60 mph.
An NWS cooperative weather observer reported quarter size hail. No damage was reported.
An NWS cooperative weather observer reported wind damage to his cotton crop.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site at Caprock Canyons State Park measured a peak wind gust to 61 mph.
The Automated Surface Observing System at Childress Municipal Airport measured a wind gust to 63 mph.
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