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Last Map Update: Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 12:12:20 pm CDT

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Not as Hot Friday!

Weekend through Early Next Week

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will be possible late Friday evening, primarily across the far southern Texas Panhandle. Strong winds up to 70 mph, golf ball sized hail, and locally heavy rainfall will be the primary hazards with any storms that develops.

A few morning showers may linger off the Caprock with the main round of storms being late Friday evening, tracking across the far southern Texas Panhandle. The severe threat remains low, although small hail and gusty winds may be possible. More widespread precipitation is expected Saturday afternoon and evening. Main threats will be small hail, gusty winds, and locally heavy rainfall.

Not as hot Friday thanks to the previous days cold front that swept through the region. Chances for showers and storms will return for the far southern Texas Panhandle late Friday evening.

Hot Saturday with chances for scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Cooler and wetter conditions arrive Sunday behind a passing cold front which may bring the potential for heavy rainfall. #lubwx #txwx

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Local Weather History For June 12th...

2005: A localized outbreak of tornadoes struck Kent, Crosby and Dickens County late this day as an extremely unstable and
strongly-sheared airmass took aim on the region. Although one strong, but brief thunderstorm developed east of Lubbock in
Crosby County early this afternoon, the significant severe weather event waited until mid-afternoon. By this time, an
upper-level disturbance, working in tandem with a tightening dryline across the eastern South Plains, promoted the
development of a broken line of north-northeast to south-southwest oriented storms near the Caprock Escarpment from Floyd
and Motley Counties south to Crosby and Garza Counties. Given the extreme instability and strong wind shear in place,
these storms immediately began rotating followed by large hail and tornadoes. The first two tornadoes were rated F0 and
belonged to a supercell located over eastern Crosby and northwest Dickens Counties. Then, a supercell farther south
(northwest Kent County), morphed into a storm of far greater concern. Thankfully, this cyclic tornadic supercell remained
over mostly rural areas of Kent County where numerous Skywarn spotters, research teams, media crews, and storm chasers
witnessed at least eight tornadoes, some simultaneously. In similar fashion to a massive wedge tornado east of Petersburg
just three days prior, one of these tornadoes also attained a large girth and soon began to deviate north from its
easterly course, before becoming nearly stationary and then moving southward around the west side of its parent
mesocyclone. This tornado at one point moved southwest according to Doppler On Wheels (DOW) mobile radar researchers. This
wedge tornado was up to 3/4 of a mile wide and mangled several large farm implements earning an F2 rating. DOW data
measured wind speeds just over 200 mph at one point at various heights above the ground.