There are a few showers and some thunderstorms moving through the western tier of counties across the Texas panhandle this afternoon.
The area is lacking in low level moisture which means that light to moderate rain will be the most anyone will be able to squeeze out of the clouds. In fact, most places will end up getting nothing but virga (rain that evaporate before it hits the ground).
The main threats with any of these “storms” will be some rain, thunder and gusty to damaging winds.
Most will be moving at about 25 to 35mph from west to east.
Per the NWS:
Isolated gusty winds to 60 mph will be possible in mainly the western 3 tiers of panhandle counties late this afternoon. A broken line of showers and storms just moving into the panhandles from nm will encounter roughly 300-500 j/kg mlcape and 600-800 j/kg dcape and a modestly dry low lvl airmass. The main wind threat should end by around 8 pm.
