Scattered thunderstorms developed early in the afternoon in the northern Rolling Plains to extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle and moved to the northeast. One of these storms produced a severe wind gust to 62 mph at Turkey (Hall County).
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Scattered thunderstorms developed early in the afternoon in the northern Rolling Plains to extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle and moved to the northeast. One of these storms produced a severe wind gust to 62 mph at Turkey (Hall 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 20, 11:38 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1238 PM CDT Mon Jul 20 2020 .AVIATION... VFR conditions to prevail through tonight. Isolated TS possible vicinity of KCDS late afternoon and early evening, but confidence and coverage too limited to insert mention at this time && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 622 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2020/ AVIATION... MCS to the west of the terminals in its final stages and should not pose any threat to KLBB or KPVW. VFR conditions to prevail through tonight. Isolated TS possible vicinity of KCDS late afternoon and early evening, but confidence and coverage too limited to insert mention at this time. PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 231 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2020/ SHORT TERM... A slowly-dissipating MCS is sending an outflow boundary southward through the forecast area. At this time it is anticipated that the MCS will dissipate before sunrise and that the boundary will dissipate late morning or this afternoon, having minimal effect on today's weather. Overall, the pattern will change only subtly from that of yesterday. An upper level ridge will remain in place across the southern tier of the CONUS with a weakness in the ridge as a weak trough has developed from the South Plains northward to southwestern Kansas. This trough/weakness will shift ever-so-slowly eastward today. Meanwhile, a low-mid level instability axis is progged to develop across the western third of the forecast area, a trough of instability across the west, another axis across northeastern New Mexico per progs of 850-700 mb theta-e. Good theta-e advection this afternoon along the Caprock escarpment north of Highway 114, and when combined with the weakness aloft, there is the possibility of isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms across the northeastern quadrant of the forecast area this afternoon into early evening. Diurnal convective initiation across northeastern New Mexico should be fairly far to the west again, not dissimilar to yesterday, but winds aloft are progged to back toward the north which would favor much less of a movement into the Panhandle than Sunday night, and this is supported by a consensus of the model guidance. Other consequence of the subtle changes in the pattern is a slight decrease in thickness values, and thus temperatures, this afternoon. A decrease of 1-3 degrees for today's highs compared to yesterday looks on track. LONG TERM... The previous forecast assessments remain on track. The mid- and upper-level ridge is expected to weaken through mid-week, resulting in daytime high temperatures in the middle 90s across West Texas. With the surface trough remaining anchored across eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle, and the presence of return flow across much of the region, monsoonal moisture will continue to advect into the High Plains region. Chances for high-based showers and weak thunderstorms will exist each afternoon and evening throughout the forecast period across the western South Plains and the extreme southern Texas Panhandle as the upper-level anticyclone remains over the middle Mississippi River Valley. Similar to what has been observed over the previous couple of days, any convective development should begin to wane as it enters the western portions of the CWA, though any measurable rainfall is certainly a plus this time of year. Sincavage && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 99/99/28
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 640 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2020 TXZ021>044-211145- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 640 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .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 19:15 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Turkey measured a wind gust to 62 mph.
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