Sirens sounded across Lubbock on Thursday as residents sheltered from tornadoes and powerful storms.

As they recover from the aftermath, more storms are approaching.

Tornadoes touched down just west of Lubbock on the evening of June 5. While they just missed the city, its residents sheltered from powerful hail, high winds, and flooding, according to KCBD. Now, the National Weather Service says additional storms are coming the evening of June 6 – warning they “[c]ould very easily be a repeat of yesterday, with all hazards in play.”

Storms are expected to form near the Texas-New Mexico border close to 3 to 4 p.m. and then head east, according to the NWS. They will likely hit Lubbock from 6 to 9 p.m.

The NWS first issued a tornado warning for Lubbock just before 7 p.m. on June 5, predicting “golf ball”-sized hail. The threat area included close to 300,000 people, 99 schools, and nine hospitals. 

The city activated its warning systems so residents could “seek shelter.” Lubbock dodged direct hits from the tornadoes but still suffered heavy damage. 

“The storm that did come through the City of Lubbock posed a great amount of structural damage, debris in roadways, and severe roadway flooding,” reads a statement the city posted to Facebook. As of midnight, 1,400 residents were without power.

“It was a little wild,” resident Joshua Dansby told The Dallas Express. “The wind was pretty bad at the house, and it blew tons of branches off trees from the neighborhood.”

He said his house was in the “path of the storm,” and it “stormed pretty bad” for close to 45 minutes – “it was crazy.” Dansby said he saw hail the size of marbles or nickels.

According to Dansby, where his sister lives, much of the damage happened in southwest Lubbock. 

“Several windows of their house got blown out,” he said. Many houses saw golf ball-sized hail, and he even heard “reports of some baseball-sized hail.”

Dansby works at Lubbock Christian University, so he went to campus after the storm. 

“We had a bunch of branches busted from the wind,” he said. “One tree in the center of campus was actually broken off right at the ground – it just toppled over.”

According to Dansby, LCU’s facilities team was still cleaning up the branches on June 6. That day, residents across the city were still recovering.

 

Dansby said he was “a little underprepared” for the previous storms, so he is “grabbing some provisions” ahead of the weekend.

“I’m headed to the store to get a couple more cases of water and some extra batteries,” Dansby said. “It’s going to be interesting.”