Late on the 11th, deep convection in the central Texas Panhandle sent an outflow boundary to the south. Elevated showers and thunderstorms, rooted above a deeply mixed boundary layer, developed along this boundary in the extreme southern Texas Panhandle.
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Late on the 11th, deep convection in the central Texas Panhandle sent an outflow boundary to the south. Elevated showers and thunderstorms, rooted above a deeply mixed boundary layer, developed along this boundary in the extreme southern Texas Panhandle. One of these storms became severe as it moved near Turkey (Hall County) producing a wind gust to 64 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 Jul 12, 12:45 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 145 AM CDT Sun Jul 12 2020 .SHORT TERM... High pressure will continue over the region today and tonight continuing our run of hot weather. Although heights will fall slightly from yesterday, high temperatures will still max out between 105F and 108F. Thus the previously issued heat advisory covering the entire area except the extreme southwestern Texas Panhandle until 9 PM Sunday night remains valid. Excessive heating this afternoon will combine with an upper level shortwave trough progged to rotate through the northeastern portion of the upper ridge to create scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. Initiation is likely to be in far NE NM and then storms will drop SE into the CWA. Have kept slight chance to chance PoPs in the forecast for areas north of a Littlefield to Floydada to Paducah line. Hazards will likely be in the form of hail and damaging winds given the dry low levels. .LONG TERM... Focus continues to remain on when the ridge will finally relent and give us a break in temperatures next week. There will still be several evenings where shortwaves rolling over the top of the ridge could initiate storms across NE NM and push these east or southeast with time. It still appears that the northern row of counties and northwestern quarter of the CWA will have the best, although still slight chance, at seeing storms. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings remain the best windows for storms anywhere north and west of a Denver City to Childress line. Lubbock will be right on the edge for PoPs but confidence on the coverage remains low enough that we probably won't see much as storms weaken/dissipate before making it to Lubbock. As for temperatures, the hottest will be on Monday and Tuesday which will need heat advisories once again through that window and then a slow cool-down in the models starting Wednesday. Still not too confident in how fast the models are bringing temps down as the ridge will remain near or over the area through at least Friday and will go a few degrees above NBM for Max/Min temps. We should see readings finally under 100 for the Caprock by Friday while the Rolling Plains hovers around 100-103 degrees. Jordan && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Heat Advisory until 9 PM CDT this evening for TXZ024>044. && 28/14
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 349 AM CDT Sun Jul 12 2020 TXZ021>044-131000- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 349 AM CDT Sun Jul 12 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A Heat Advisory is in effect for all but the southwestern Panhandle through 9 pm. Lows this morning will only reach the mid 70s for most of the area, and will be in the upper 70s in the southern Rolling Plains. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible across the northern South Plains and northern Rolling Plains and a few storms may briefly become severe. Wind gusts to 60 mph and quarter size hail will be the primary threats. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Near record to record heat in the triple digits will continue into the middle of next week. Overnight temperatures will also remain well above normal during this time period which will not provide much relief each evening and lead to an increased risk of heat related illnesses. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:44 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet near Turkey measured a wind gust to 64 mph.
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