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West Texas Mesonet (WTM) observations and WSR-88D data are examined to ascertain the forcing mechanisms involved in the 30 May 2001 Lubbock, Texas, high-wind event. The wind event was characterized by a classic bow-echo signature in the radar reflectivity data along with an elevated region of storm-relative rear-to-front flow capped by a region of storm-relative front-to-rear flow. As the storm passed over western Lubbock County, five-minute mean winds in excess of60 knots were recorded at the WTM site at Reese Center. Damage surveys verified winds of this magnitude. Close inspection of the life cycle of the Lubbock storm, as depicted by radar imagery, reveals several interesting characteristics, including a well-defined bounded weak-echo region (EWER) on its leading edge, a supercell to bow echo transition, and several boundary interactions. The Reese Center WTM site also indicated the presence of a bimodal signal in wind maxima as the storm passed over. The first maximum can be attributed to the initial gust front passage and subsequent momentum flux from the rear-inflow jet. The second maximum, of shorter duration and greater intensity, appears decoupled from the rear-inflow jet and may be due to vertical flux of easterly momentum air to the surface. 1