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Expect a mild night tonight with lows ranging from the upper 60s to near 80.

Unfortunately fireworks may not be the only thing lighting up the skies tomorrow night. There is a chance of storms for much of the area through the evening. These are expected to initiate across the western South Plains in the late-afternoon and track eastward.

Northwest flow aloft will maintain rain chances for the weekend at least through Tuesday. Also, temperatures will be cooler than they have been on average.

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Local Weather History For July 4th...

2010 (4th-10th): A deep plume of subtropical moisture streamed northward over West Texas during the first few days of July
2010. Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced locally heavy rainfall each afternoon and evening starting on the 1st
and persisting through the 3rd. Although little to no adverse public impacts were observed from the rains through the
first three days of the month, the remnants of former Atlantic Hurricane Alex proceeded to spread north into the region
late on the 3rd and through the 4th. The remnants of Hurricane Alex brought the onset of widespread tropical rains to the
South Plains region, with rainfall rates measured to exceed 4.00 inches per hour in some locations. The heaviest rainfall
occurred along several convective bands that spanned southwest to northeast over the southern and central South Plains.
Thus the most adverse impacts were experienced over portions of Terry, Lubbock, Lynn, and Garza Counties, where isolated
locations received more than one foot of rain through the early morning hours of Independence Day. The Fourth of July
flash floods and floods brought extensive damages and economic loss to the area. Local and state officials estimated these
losses to approach $16.5M. The State of Texas declared several South Plains counties a Disaster Area, and federal
assistance was requested. In spite of the dramatic agricultural and property damages, no serious injuries were reported.
Much of this can be attributed to advance warning from the NWS in Lubbock, particularly at Ransom Canyon in Lubbock County
where some 250 holiday campers were warned to evacuate from the lakes shores before flood waters consumed the shoreline.
The last campers to be contacted were notified just as their air mattresses began floating in the flood waters. Remnant
flooding