901 AWUS44 KLUB 021608 SWSTX WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1115 AM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 LATE THIS MORNING SKIES WERE PARTLY CLOUDY FROM THE FAR WEST TO THE PERMIAN BASIN WHILE THE REST OF THE REGION WAS UNDER MOSTLY SUNNY TO SUNNY SKIES. 10 AM CDT TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 60S AND 70S AND RANGED FROM 61 AT BOTH DALHART AND GUYMON OKLAHOMA TO 79 AT FORT STOCKTON. WIND WAS NORTH TO NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTY ACROSS THE PANHANDLES WITH SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTY ACROSS THE REST OF THE REGION. OVERNIGHT LOWS WERE MOSTLY IN THE 50S AND 60S BUT RANGED FROM 42 AT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DALHART TO 76 AT PANTHER JUNCTION. WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE FORECAST SUMMARY...PARTLY CLOUDY AND VERY WARM MOST AREAS THIS AFTERNOON...SKIES BECOMING CLOUDY AND COOLER TONIGHT NORTH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE 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 THIS AFTERNOON MOSTLY 80S AND 90S EXCEPT FOR SOME 70S IN THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES. LOWS TONIGHT FROM THE 50S NORTH TO 60S SOUTH WITH 40S IN THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES. CLOUDY AND MUCH COOLER PANHANDLES AND SOUTH PLAINS THURSDAY WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. 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.