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Last Map Update: Wed, May. 22, 2024 at 9:57:56 pm CDT


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Besides a chance for isolated storms on Thursday and again next Wednesday, warm and sunny weather will continue across the entire region through the next week.

Lows will be in the upper 50s to mid 60s with increasing cloud cover through the night. Winds will be out of the south to southeast around 5-10 mph.

Thursday will be dry, breezy, and warmer. There is a slight chance for afternoon thunderstorms across the far eastern Rolling Plains while elevated to near critical fire weather danger will exist across the caprock.

A few severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail and damaging winds are possible on Thursday afternoon and evening across the eastern Rolling Plains and SE TX Panhandle.

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Local Weather History For May 22nd...

1973: Late this afternoon and evening, scattered supercell thunderstorms littered portions of the South Plains and far
southern Panhandle with hail. In at least four separate cases, copious amounts of small hail piled up to depths of two to
four inches impeding travel on area roads. One of these supercells produced gigantic hail as large as 5.0 inches just
north of Seagraves in Yoakum County. In Lynn County, a near 40 minute barrage of large hail, including some hailstones as
large as four inches in diameter, covered the ground. Most of these hailstones were two inches. The ground in Brownfield
was completely covered with hailstones averaging two inches in diameter. Near Halfway, a tornado touched down for a few
minutes over open country damaging nothing. Considerable damage was dealt to area crops and property, however the $35,000
crop damage estimates listed in Storm Data were likely far below the actual dollar value given the amount of acreage
devastated.