National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

A Freeze Watch is in effect from late Friday night through Saturday morning across the Caprock. Temperatures as low as 28 to 32°F are expected early Saturday.
A widespread freeze is possible tonight into early Saturday morning for areas on the caprock. Some areas may also see a freeze Sunday morning.
Much cooler temperatures will spread into the area today with mostly 50s expected. Rain has ended across the area with dry weather lasting through the weekend.
Cooler temperatures and dry conditions will dominate the weather this weekend across West Texas.
After a cool weekend, temperatures will slowly warm back up next week. Precipitation chances will return mid-week.

 

 

 

Local Weather History For October 16th...
2007: A cluster of severe thunderstorms, including a supercell, erupted over the far southern Texas Panhandle late this
evening. The supercell storm dropped quarter size hail in Happy before exiting north of the Lubbock NWS forecast area.
While 13 miles south of Canyon, this supercell produced a destructive EF1 tornado.