Isolated thunderstorms developed off of an outflow boundary early in the morning of the 23rd that moved into the region from the north from a decaying mesoscale convective system. One of these storms produced a severe wind gust near Tulia.
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Isolated thunderstorms developed off of an outflow boundary early in the morning of the 23rd that moved into the region from the north from a decaying mesoscale convective system. One of these storms produced a severe wind gust near Tulia.
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 23, 2:00 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 300 AM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 ...New SHORT TERM, LONG TERM... .SHORT TERM... (Today and tonight) Issued at 259 AM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 Some isolated showers and thunderstorms still remain across the Texas Panhandle as of 2 AM CDT. There is a chance these storms could move into the FA before sunrise, but any showers or thunderstorms that do move into the FA should dissipate by mid morning. The rest of today and tonight should remain fairly quiet. The upper high currently centered just to the west of the Four Corners will begin pushing eastward today and will help to inhibit most precip chances. This will also help increase afternoon highs into the mid/upper 90s area wide. Overnight lows will also be slightly warmer than previous nights and will be in the low to mid 70s. && .LONG TERM... (Monday through Saturday) Issued at 259 AM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 Tomorrow, the upper ridge will be centered back over northern New Mexico with heights rising over West Texas. Surface winds will be mostly out of the south, so between the subsidence and warm air advection, temperatures are expected to warm back into the triple digits. The upper ridge will continue to wobble over New Mexico through much of the week with temperatures remaining hot in the triple digits. Model spreads appear to be a bit low with temperatures through the first half of the week, so have opted to increase highs a few degrees through Thursday. A few days may get close to Heat Advisory criteria across the South and Rolling Plains. Strong subsidence should help to suppress any development of thunderstorms early on in the week. By mid-week, diurnal thunderstorms will develop along the higher terrain of Colorado and New Mexico but with weak steering flow aloft the chance remains low to see any rain across the forecast area. Towards the end of the week, the ridge will try to break down a bit as it retrogrades west closer to the New Mexico and Arizona border. Thus there may be some relief from the triple digits heading into next weekend, despite the persistent southerly surface winds. Above normal temperatures are expected during the overnight hours through the week with potentially elevated surface winds due to an increase in the low level jet and also the presence of a few high clouds. Thus mild low temperatures will range in the 70s across much of the area. && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1209 AM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 VFR conditions will prevail at all terminals. && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...51 LONG TERM....11 AVIATION...51
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 311 AM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 TXZ021>044-240815- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 311 AM CDT Sun Jul 23 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A few isolated thunderstorms are possible early this morning across portions of the far southern Texas Panhandle and eastern South Plains. Main threats will be gusty winds and heavy rainfall at times. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Tulia measured severe wind gusts from 0455 CST through 0457 CST. A peak wind gust of 64 mph was measured at 0456 CST.
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