Lubbock, TX

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Thunderstorms bring widespread rainfall and scattered severe weather (April 29th -30th)
Giant hail, torrential rain and tornadoes target the South Plains region (April 24th - 26th)
Rounds of scattered severe thunderstorms and localized torrential rain (April 22nd - 23rd)
Thunderstorms, widespread rain and heavy snow (April 3rd - 5th)
Another round of intense wind, thick blowing dust and critical fire weather (March 18th)
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Last Map Update: Sat, May 3, 2025 at 8:44:22 am CDT

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Heavy Rain Monday & Tuesday

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Heavy rain is forecast Monday night when 1 to 2 inches of rain, locally higher, is possible over much of the forecast area. Flooding will be possible.

Severe chances return Monday with the greatest chances over the southern South Plains and Southern Rolling Plains. Large hail and strong wind gusts are possible with any thunderstorm development.

Today will be slightly warmer than yesterday with highs in the 70s. Mostly sunny skies and light southerly winds are expected.

Another cool night with lows in the 40s with mostly clear skies and light southerly winds.

Rain returns with a vengeance on Monday and especially Monday night when widespread heavy rain is likely. Unsettled and cool weather stays around through late week.

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Local Weather History For May 3rd...

1961: An outbreak of severe weather including at least five tornadoes struck Briscoe, Floyd, Cottle, Dickens, and King
Counties late this afternoon and into the early nighttime. The first tornado moved over undeveloped land from about 10
miles north of Dickens southeastward to about 10 miles south of Guthrie. The next tornado was sighted about one mile north
of Dougherty around 6 PM before moving to about two miles south of town at which point it was accompanied by a second
tornado. The larger of the two tornadoes passed east of town with the lesser tracking directly through Dougherty where it
destroyed three trailer homes, blew away a barn, ripped the porch off a home, and overturned several cotton trailers.
About 1/2 of the population of 150 were in storm cellars when the tornado struck and there were no injuries reported. The
larger tornado remained about one mile from the smaller tornado and fortunately tracked over open country before
dissipating around 6:10 PM. The fourth tornado this day was brief and spotted in open land in northeast Briscoe County
about 25 miles SW of Clarendon. The final tornado occurred at some point this night on the old Matador ranch (12 miles
west of Paducah) and damaged only mesquite trees throughout its short path. Many of these storms also produced very large
hail at times up to baseball size as was noted three miles north of Dougherty. Silverton suffered damage to roofs and
autos from hail slightly larger than baseballs and some area wheat crops were a complete loss. Similar hail damage
occurred in Turkey and Dickens, but was generally less in magnitude than Silverton.

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