065 AWUS44 KLUB 021008 SWSTX WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 515 AM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 MORNING SKIES ACROSS THE REGION WERE CLEAR EXCEPT FOR SOME HIGH CLOUDS EXTENDING FROM FAR WEST TEXAS INTO THE TRANS-PECOS AND BIG BEND AREAS. TEMPERATURES AT 500 AM CDT WERE ON THE MILD SIDE WITH MOST READINGS FROM THE MID 60S TO NEAR 70. EXTREMES RANGED FROM 55 DEGREES AT DALHART TO 70 AT FORT STOCKTON. WIND WAS GENERALLY FROM THE SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND OCCASIONALLY GUSTY...EXCEPT FOR SOUTHWEST WINDS LESS THAN 10 MPH IN THE FAR WEST AND BIG BEND. WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE FORECAST SUMMARY...PARTLY CLOUDY AND VERY WARM MOST AREAS TODAY...THEN BECOMING CLOUDY AND COOLER TONIGHT IN THE NORTH. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES AND SOUTH PLAINS...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE PERMIAN BASIN AND CONCHO VALLEY. HIGHS TODAY WILL BE IN THE 80S AND 90S EXCEPT FOR SOME 70S IN THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES. LOWS TONIGHT FROM THE 50S NORTH TO 60S SOUTH EXCEPT FOR 40S IN THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES. CLOUDY AND MUCH COOLER IN THE PANHANDLES AND SOUTH PLAINS ON THURSDAY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE...PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PERMIAN BASIN AND CONCHO VALLEY. HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM THE 60S AND 70S NORTH TO THE 80S AND 90S IN SOUTHERN AND FAR WEST TEXAS.