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A very severe storm came though two hours ago. There were no tornado touchdowns, but there were several funnels spotted in and around Lubbock. It rained about 2" in 30 minutes and there was almost 1" of pea to quarter sized hail on the ground which made the rush hour commute especially hazardous. In a nearby town, a hail storm parked over the town and there was 6-7" of hail. They had to get the snowplows out! I like thunderstorms as long as they aren't severe. This one was too much for me though. I'm just glad we don't get storms like these often like other places in Tornado Alley. (Sorry about that the third picture is so blurry.)
A very severe storm came though two hours ago. There were no tornado touchdowns, but there were several funnels spotted in and around Lubbock. It rained about 2" in 30 minutes and there was almost 1" of pea to quarter sized hail on the ground which made the rush hour commute especially hazardous. In a nearby town, a hail storm parked over the town and there was 6-7" of hail. They had to get the snowplows out! I like thunderstorms as long as they aren't severe. This one was too much for me though. I'm just glad we don't get storms like these often like other places in Tornado Alley. (Sorry about that the third picture is so blurry.)
All the years I lived out there, I never saw the snowplows get broken out. Freaked me out when they showed it on the news here in DFW last night. That is crazy!
All the years I lived out there, I never saw the snowplows get broken out. Freaked me out when they showed it on the news here in DFW last night. That is crazy!
They showed it on the news in Dallas? That's pretty crazy. Apparently, there were eight tornado touchdowns in the area, two of them in Lubbock county! Some parts of Lubbock got baseball sized hail. There are still piles of hail in the yard and our rain guage showed 4" of rain, all of which fell in about 30-45 minutes, flooding out many of the roads. I-27 was closed from Hale Center to Canyon. I hope we're done with severe storms this season.
They showed it on the news in Dallas? That's pretty crazy. Apparently, there were eight tornado touchdowns in the area, two of them in Lubbock county! Some parts of Lubbock got baseball sized hail. There are still piles of hail in the yard and our rain guage showed 4" of rain, all of which fell in about 30-45 minutes, flooding out many of the roads. I-27 was closed from Hale Center to Canyon. I hope we're done with severe storms this season.
Yeah, they showed it on the channel 8 news.
And I doubt it, man; it's only April. One of the worst storms I saw when I was living out there (apart from the two tornadoes), me and a couple of the other guys on the football team were lifting weights at Chapman Field when a real blockbuster of a storm blew through complete with golfball sized hail and 80mph winds. And that was in June!
You also hit CNN news. I saw it this morning. That was pretty unbelieveable!!! When I read your post yesterday, I just couldn't picture how bad it must've been for them to need the snow plows. Thanks to CNN I got to see it.
Kinda off topic, but do you guys have your own county/state snow plows in the panhandle? OR did you have to borrow them from further north? Just wondering cause I didn't think you'd have anything except sand trucks.
The City of Lubbock does indeed own a couple of snow plows. We obviously don't get the snow here in Texas that you guys get up there, but every few years or so they have to break them out mainly to clean up melt from snow and sleet storms. They get more use in Amarillo, I'm sure. The northern end of the Panhandle gets a surprisingly good amount of snow each year (again, nothing like y'all are accustomed to).
Even the City of Dallas owns a few plows. I have no idea why, but they do.
They showed it on the news in Dallas? That's pretty crazy. Apparently, there were eight tornado touchdowns in the area, two of them in Lubbock county! Some parts of Lubbock got baseball sized hail. There are still piles of hail in the yard and our rain guage showed 4" of rain, all of which fell in about 30-45 minutes, flooding out many of the roads. I-27 was closed from Hale Center to Canyon. I hope we're done with severe storms this season.
Well, better now than when I go out there in a few months. By then, it should be sunny all the time.
Actually, for now, your rain event is over, but the dryline is hovering east of Lubbock and will bring more showers to D/FW later on today. We've already had lingering thunderstorms, but no hail.
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I like thunderstorms as long as they aren't severe. This one was too much for me though. I'm just glad we don't get storms like these often like other places in Tornado Alley.
(Sorry about that the third picture is so blurry.)
Can you see them now?
