Matt Ernst

Lubbock

News Director at KCBD-TV (Lubbock, TX)

News Director @kcbd11 | Not the Charlie Daniels of the torque wrench

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First Alert Weather Days ahead

2 days ago | kcbd.com | Matt Ernst |John Robison |shania Jackson

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - First Alert Weather Days are in place Thursday and Friday, for the potential for multiple rounds of severe weather. The first round will arrive early Thursday morning. Thunderstorms developing now in northeastern and northern New Mexico are expected to congeal into a complex and move toward the Texas Panhandle and NW South Plains by late tonight.
FIRST ALERT: Scattered thunderstorms today

4 days ago | kcbd.com | shania Jackson |John Robison |Matt Ernst

Watch a livestream of radar and current conditions by clicking the player above. Click here for latest weather alerts | Submit your weather photos and videos | Download our appsLUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Thunderstorms will move across the area this afternoon, spreading from west to east. Some storms will producing damaging wind gusts and hail. The mid-day Storm Prediction Center outlooks shows the greater risk in the eastern Panhandle, a level 3 out of 5.
FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY: Severe storms today

1 week ago | kcbd.com | Matt Ernst

Watch a livestream of the radar by clicking the player aboveLatest alerts | Submit your weather photos and videos | Download our appsLUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Severe thunderstorms are expected to move over parts of our area this afternoon and evening. We expect the first thunderstorm to develop around 3 or 4 p.m. somewhere over the western South Plains or Eastern New Mexico. Coverage should increase over the following hours. A cold front is moving north to south across our area.
FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY: Severe storms likely today

1 week ago | kcbd.com | John Robison |shania Jackson |Matt Ernst

Watch a livestream of the radar by clicking the player above. Current weather alerts | Submit your weather photos and videos | Download our appsLUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Severe thunderstorms are likely this afternoon and evening on the South Plains. The first storms will probably develop around 3 p.m., becoming more widespread later in the day. The mid-day Storm Prediction Center outlook shows a level 3 out of 5 risk in orange below, including Lubbock and much of the South Plains.
Severe thunderstorm watch Rolling Plains until 10 p.m.

2 weeks ago | kcbd.com | shania Jackson |John Robison |Matt Ernst

Watch a livestream of the radar by clicking the player above. Latest alerts | Submit your weather photos and videos | LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Storm Prediction Center has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Rolling Plains, east of Lubbock, until 10 p.m. Thursday. The watch includes Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King and Motley counties, shown in green below.
Near-record warmth next few days

3 weeks ago | kcbd.com | Matt Ernst

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The temperature is running nearly 10 degrees warmer this afternoon than yesterday. It’s going to get even hotter next few days. The record for tomorrow’s date and Wednesday’s date in Lubbock is 100. We’ll be close. We’re projection a high around 98, with a few triple-digit readings over the southern and southwestern South Plains. It won’t be quite as hot to the north, generally 80s over the Panhandle.
KCBD celebrates 72 years on TV

3 weeks ago | kcbd.com | Matt Ernst

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - May 10, 1953 KCBD radio added a television broadcast. Each year, back-to-back dates bring a contrast of remembrances. May 11, 1970 the Lubbock F-5 tornado hit this city. Through jubilee and tragedy, KCBD has been there. In the video above, you can see just a few of the many key memories in the station’s history. In 1995, Chief Meteorologist John Robison noted how technology had already evolved greatly, to better prepared the city for another devastating storm.
55 years later, Pearl bottle relic of Lubbock tornado aid

3 weeks ago | kcbd.com | Matt Ernst

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - All these years later, we continue to hear new perspectives on the 1970 Lubbock tornado. Larry Aguallo was a junior at Lubbock High. He remembers that May 11 night like it was yesterday. “As soon as it was over, we went outside,” Aguallo said. I remember looking around. There was no lights. our lights went out five minutes after it started.
Sunny weekend, much warmer next week

4 weeks ago | kcbd.com | Matt Ernst

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - It’ll get a little bit warmer this weekend then much warmer next week. First, small showers and thunderstorms will continue drifting from NE to SW across the South Plains this evening. The most intense storms could produce small hail, the severe risk is low. More than anything, a brief downpour that lasts a few minutes and some thunder and lightning. Showers and storms should diminish after sunset. WEEKENDIt’ll be a relatively cool start again in the morning.
More than 700 measles cases confirmed across the South Plains region

1 month ago | kcbd.com | Chelsea Collinsworth |Brandon Soliz |Matt Ernst

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - There are now 709 confirmed measles cases in the South Plains region since the outbreak began in late January. The Texas Department of State Health Services reports 92 of those patients have been hospitalized over the course of the outbreak. According to the DSHS, fewer than 10 of the confirmed cases are “estimated to be actively infectious.”DSHS says the following counties have ongoing measles cases: Cochran, Dallam, Dawson, Gaines, Lamar, Lubbock, Terry and Yoakum.