Updated: 9:45PM
The National Weather Service has put portions of the FOX 34 viewing area under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Counties include Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hale, Hall, Motley, Swisher, Lamb, Bailey, and Castro counties. The watch is in effect until 3:00 AM Friday morning with the main threats being large hail and strong damaging winds. Stay right here with FOX 34 for continued updates throughout the night.
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All focus for this forecast is still on the potential for scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop overnight. It still looks like activity will stay mainly to the east of Lubbock, and eventually will be pushed off to the east out of our area by a dryline early Friday. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has highlighted an area for a “Slight Risk” of Severe Weather which spans from just to the east of Lubbock across the Rolling Plains. Below are a few snapshots of our in-house computer model showing the setup overnight and early tomorrow as well as a graphic showing SPC’s “Slight Risk.”
A fairly strong cold front will move through Friday afternoon, ushering in breezy north winds and cooler air. While we should warm to the lower 60s ahead of the front, it will be breezy and cool Friday evening. We stay cooler through the weekend and into next week.
Stay with us right here on the Weather Blog and on Fox 34 as we update you on any possible severe weather overnight.
-Rudy
** Punxsutawney Phil (the name of the groundhog) saw his shadow this morning, which according to tradition, means that we will have 6 more weeks of Winter. There is a reason we don’t hire groundhogs as meteorologists or climatologists, because according to current Global conditions and many long range models, most of the United States will have above average temperatures and below average precipitation over the next 6 weeks!**
