May 7, 2019
By 1400 CST on the seventh, another consecutive day of severe weather was underway across the South Plains of West Texas. A dryline mixed into West Texas and stalled around the US Highway 385 corridor. Discrete supercells developed along the entire dryline through the South Plains. Fortunately, many of these thunderstorms did not produce severe hail. The strongest thunderstorm of the day initially developed in Lamb County and slowly moved northeast into Hale and Swisher Counties. Numerous storm
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 813272). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Swisher County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.