Scattered thunderstorms moved out of the south-central Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the fourth. As these storms decreased in intensity, they produced a severe wind gust to 60 mph near Silverton (Briscoe County).
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Scattered thunderstorms moved out of the south-central Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the fourth. As these storms decreased in intensity, they produced a severe wind gust to 60 mph near Silverton (Briscoe 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 Jun 3, 11:31 PM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1231 AM CDT Thu Jun 4 2020 .AVIATION... VFR conditions in place at all three TAF sites. A cluster of thunderstorms is pushing towards KCDS terminal but uncertainty remains high on whether these storms will make it or not and will leave out of the TAF for now. Another round of storms is possible at KPVW and KCDS this afternoon and have inserted PROB30 for the most likely window for storms. KLBB may be far enough south and east that storms may miss the terminal so will not include at this time. Storms should move out of the region before midnight Friday leaving VFR conditions behind. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 108 PM CDT Wed Jun 3 2020/ SHORT TERM... Early afternoon water vapor imagery analyzes a subsidence layer developing in the mid-levels along the downstream portion of the ridge axis. The weak, mid-level shortwave perturbation from this morning has become absorbed into the broader background flow, with no discernible perturbation evident on water vapor. An outflow boundary was also detected on the KLBB WSR-88D, with a surface trough extending southwestward from the extreme southern Texas Panhandle and into the South Plains as per West Texas Mesonet data. The meager deep-layer flow and developing mid-level subsidence inversion will suppress vigorous convective development this afternoon; however, general thunderstorms will be possible with a single-cell and multi-cellular storm character expected. Anvil-level storm-relative winds near 50 knots should downshear storm tops significantly, resulting in mean storm motion vectors of ~330/25 kt (north-northwest at around 30 mph), which is similar to the previous forecast assessments. Shallow cumulus is gradually developing across the eastern Rolling Plains, while the Caprock remains clear at this time. LCLs are expected to be very high (i.e. ~3-km AGL), and the high-based storm mode will favor locally strong downdrafts with wind speeds to 50 mph due to the Inverted-V profiles beneath cloud base. Storms will move orthogonal to the initiating boundary across the northern South and Rolling Plains, and will have a short residence time for maturing before cold outflows undercut the boundary-layer and storm-relative inflow, resulting in the stabilization of the near-storm environment. Any storms that do develop will begin to collapse near sunset given the loss of diurnal heating and the decoupling of the boundary-layer. For tomorrow, thunderstorm potential exists once again but with slightly stronger deep-layer shear at around 30-35 knots. Mean storm motion vectors will be similar to today, with a multi-cellular storm character expected. Subsidence aloft is forecast to erode owing to increasing theta-e advection along and immediately west of the ridge axis as it pivots into the Big Bend region. Residual outflow boundaries from the convection today in addition to the location of the surface trough will serve as the focus for convective initiation tomorrow afternoon. Inverted-V profiles with high-based LCLs will once again favor a risk for low-end severe winds and hail (up to 60 mph and 1 inch diameter, respectively). Sincavage LONG TERM... Models remain in good agreement with the overall evolution of the upper pattern through the forecast period, although with a bit of divergence toward Tuesday and Wednesday that for now is not expected to have much effect on the forecast. The upper ridge just to our west will move eastward over the southern High Plains on Friday with further expansion northeastward toward the Missouri Valley on Saturday as a an upper level short wave trough ejects northeastward across the 4-corners. Over the weekend the upper ridge becomes centered over Missouri with a southwestward narrow extension across West Texas squeezed between a broad upper trough over the western CONUS and tropical system Cristobal moving northward across the western Gulf of Mexico. This evolution presents no significant change from the last couple of runs, thus a continuation of a forecast favoring warmer than normal temperatures and no precipitation. A cold front is progged toward Tuesday/Wednesday, the timing of which will have an effect on temperatures Monday-Wednesday and is currently the main focus of the increasing model divergence. Model blend handles well at this time. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 14/99/99
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1118 AM CDT Wed Jun 3 2020 TXZ021>044-041630- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1118 AM CDT Wed Jun 3 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. A few thunderstorms may develop this afternoon and evening across the southern Panhandle into the northern South and Rolling Plains. The strongest storms may produce wind gusts to 50 mph and brief heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Strong storms are also possible late Thursday afternoon through the evening across the southern Panhandle into the northern South and Rolling Plains. The strongest storms may produce gusty winds to around 60 mph, hail to around an inch in diameter, and brief heavy rainfall. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet station near Silverton measured a wind gust to 60 mph.
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