On the afternoon of the 22nd, scattered thunderstorms developed along several remnant outflow boundaries from earlier convection. Broadcast media relayed a picture of a short lived landspout tornado about seven miles south of Crosbyton (Crosby County).
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On the afternoon of the 22nd, scattered thunderstorms developed along several remnant outflow boundaries from earlier convection. Broadcast media relayed a picture of a short lived landspout tornado about seven miles south of Crosbyton (Crosby 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 22, 1:23 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 223 PM CDT Wed Jul 22 2020 .SHORT TERM... Weak convection will continue to develop, weaken and regenerate across most of our forecast area this afternoon and early evening. PWATS are around 1.5" with surface dewpoints generally in the 60s on the Caprock and approaching 70 in the Rolling Plains. There is very little inhibition holding storms back today from developing along remnant or newly generated surface outflow boundaries, especially in the South Plains. With little to no bulk wind shear though, the updrafts are unable to sustain themselves, and end up rapidly decaying. This will continue through the early evening hours tonight. The pattern isn't changing much for tomorrow, but we'll see even higher surface dewpoints and PWATS tomorrow afternoon. The lack of wind shear will also continue to be a limiting factor for severe threat tomorrow, struggling to reach 20kts at any point today or tomorrow. Expect to see more general thunderstorms tomorrow that may produce occasionally strong downburst wind gusts especially later this afternoon and late tomorrow afternoon as well. Given the increased surface moisture expected over the next 24 hours, we'll see a mild overnight into tomorrow morning and Thursdays highs will be seasonally warm but slightly below normal in the upper 80s and low 90s for most of us. .LONG TERM... Upper level ridge building will be underway across the central plains late Thursday into Friday, with our area tucked in the southwest quadrant of the ridge and continued modest moist deep southeast flow. Precipitable Water values will remain elevated compared to late July normals, and contribute yet again to low thunder chances a bit more shunted westward into the western South Plains and southwest Panhandle. Upper heights will increase a bit more Saturday into Sunday as a tropical wave nears the south Texas coast along with very gradual drying. The upper ridge, in tandem with this wave, is expected to retrograde west into the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles by early Monday. Our area will remain in light easterly flow but it currently appears the bulk of tropical moisture and lift likely will steer south of our area into southwest Texas and northern Mexico before being absorbed into the general monsoonal moisture circulation through the southern Plateau and Rockies early next week, mostly west of our area. This pattern is favorable at least for not excessively hot temperatures. And, actually, this often leads to slightly lower than normal temperatures. However, solutions currently are not indicating very favorable deep moisture late weekend into early next week, although the lagging blended solutions still retain a chance of thunder our area much of this time. Since latest solution trends are drier, we have trended a little less with precipitation chances Sunday into early next week, with temperatures near normal or just very slightly under normal. RMcQueen && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 55/05
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 301 AM CDT Wed Jul 22 2020 TXZ021>044-230815- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 301 AM CDT Wed Jul 22 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Pulse severe storms will be possible this afternoon. Wind gusts to 65 mph will be the primary threat with this activity. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:42 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Local broadcast media relayed a picture of a landspout tornado approximately seven miles south of Crosbyton.
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