Cooler air was ushered into the region early on the first with an outflow boundary reinforced front. This front settled across the southern South Plains in the afternoon leaving a stout elevated mixed layer across the remainder of the South Plains and southern Texas Panhandle.
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The episode as NWS LUB wrote it up.
Cooler air was ushered into the region early on the first with an outflow boundary reinforced front. This front settled across the southern South Plains in the afternoon leaving a stout elevated mixed layer across the remainder of the South Plains and southern Texas Panhandle. Isolated elevated supercells developed within this instability across the extreme southern Texas Panhandle. Some of these storms became severe producing hail up to baseball size near Matador causing vehicle damage (Motley 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 1, 5:08 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 608 PM CDT Wed Jun 1 2022 .AVIATION... IFR to near IFR CIGs will continue at all terminals tonight through mid tomorrow morning. One exception is if convection affects a terminal in which VIS may temporarily rise into low end MVFR. Even so VIS would likely drop significantly due to the potential for heavy rainfall. Expect continued cloud cover through much of tomorrow with a slight increase in CIGs to MVFR. Current guidance suggests CIGs becoming VFR near the end of this TAF cycle. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 141 PM CDT Wed Jun 1 2022/ SHORT TERM... The forecast regarding the severe thunderstorm potential this afternoon remains on track. Please refer to the Mesoscale Discussion issued at 1115 AM CDT for full details. The cold front is progressing slowly to the south this early afternoon, with a substantial increase in diabatic surface heating as the dense overcast continues to erode across the southern South and Rolling Plains. Severe storms are expected to form by 20-21Z across southeastern New Mexico with an initial discrete mode before morphing upscale into a small MCS and moving across the southern South and Rolling Plains. The tornado potential is low but not zero, and a short-lived tornadic event or two will be possible with any supercell that forms prior to upscale growth along and near the cold front as the convective outflows/density currents reinforce baroclinity along it, therefore enhancing low-level stretching and vertical vorticity along the axis of dilatation. After the MCS forms, it is forecast to propagate generally southeast, exiting the southern zones towards sunset. The other severe-caliber hazards mentioned in the 1115 AM CDT discussion are still expected this afternoon with swaths of 60-70 mph wind gusts. Isolated, significant wind gusts up to 80 mph and extremely large (3"+ diameter) hail events will be possible as well in addition to localized flash flooding. Overnight, additional chances for non-surface-based/elevated convection will be possible across the extreme southern TX PH into the northern South and Rolling Plains as the elevated mixed layer remains intact. With LCLs rooted above the post-frontal airmass, large hail will be the primary hazard associated with overnight convection in addition to locally heavy rain with convection moving to the southeast as steering flow veers to the northwest before clearing the aforementioned zones by sunrise. Cooler temperatures are expected tomorrow with highs in the lower 70s area-wide as a dense overcast inhibits insolation with light winds shifting to the east. Sincavage LONG TERM... An upper ridge will remain anchored in northern Mexico for the next several days but will also keep precipitation chances in the forecast. East to southeasterly low level upslope flow will dominate on Thursday leading into Thursday evening. This will lead to high terrain convection in eastern New Mexico on Thursday afternoon into the evening. This convection will make slow eastward progression through the evening and may struggle once it reaches West Texas. Most of the thunderstorm activity may not affect the region until after midnight tomorrow night. A weak short wave will be moving through the flow around the ridge on Thursday afternoon/evening but better lift will be to the south of the area where a stronger upper level jet will be nosing into Far West Texas. With generally cloudy conditions through the day on Thursday, warm advection will promote elevated instability through the evening and nighttime hours. Therefore, severe chances will be low with this activity from late Thursday through early Friday morning with weak elevated instability. Friday afternoon into the evening will not be too dissimilar to Thursday's setup at the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere. Another weak short wave may be moving over the ridge in the afternoon approaching the area during the evening hours. A general lack of cloud cover on Friday will promote much more boundary layer instability and greater chances of severe convection. Analog guidance continues to indicate increased probabilities for severe weather on Friday afternoon and evening opposed to Thursday's weather. Nearly zonal flow aloft will dominate this weekend into early next week with a sloshing dryline but convection looks unlikely with capping in place. Temperatures will be on the increase with thickness values undergoing a steady increase through the first half of next week. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 51/99/99
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1138 AM CDT Wed Jun 1 2022 TXZ021>044-021645- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1138 AM CDT Wed Jun 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Severe thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon mainly across the southern South Plains, gradually increasing in coverage and spreading into the southern Rolling Plains this evening. The strongest storms will be capable of producing extremely large hail in excess of baseball size and isolated wind gusts up to 80 mph. A short lived tornado will be possible as well. Thunderstorms are expected to produced torrential rainfall, which will result in localized flash flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms will also be possible on Thursday and Friday across the Caprock and Rolling Plains. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed.
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:06 UTC.
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The fire department in Silverton reported accumulating hail with the largest hail up to quarter size.
An NWS cooperative weather observer near Matador reported baseball ball size hail. There was an unknown amount of damage to vehicles in the area.
The fire department in Turkey reported quarter size hail in town.
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