According to an emergency alert from Texas Tech University, all classes on the evening of May 7th have been canceled due to severe weather in the Lubbock area.
Two tornadoes formed Sunday afternoon in Lynn County, east of Tahoka and east of US 87. The tornadoes remained in open county and no injuries were reported
There's good reason for weather professionals to interrupt TV & radio programming when thunderstorms develop on the South Plains. This weekend was no exception.
Days in advance of the approaching storm system, local weather professionals warned of a windy Wednesday, and that's exactly what happened on April 10, 2019.
At one point after Wednesday's wind storm, over 136,000 Xcel Energy customers across West Texas and Eastern New Mexico lost power. According to Xcel, it was a record-setting number for any outage event on the regional electrical system.