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Lightning within eight miles suspends a football game; play resumed in about 45 minutes
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At 2:47 PM CDT on September 13, 2025, lightning was detected within eight miles of Jones AT&T Stadium and the Texas Tech-Oregon State game was suspended. This was Texas Tech's second lightning-related home-game delay in two weeks following the August 30 supercell delay vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Fans were directed off the open seating decks into the concourse, restrooms, and vehicles. Texas Tech Football tweeted the standardized template ("We are currently in a lightning delay") and a follow-up estimating a 45-minute resumption. The delay ended after approximately 45 minutes per the original estimate.
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We are monitoring weather conditions. The storm is moving through the area and we anticipate that the game will resume in approximately 45 minutes.
Verbatim @TexasTechFB follow-up tweet, identical template to the August 30 game two weeks earlier, reinforcing that this is the standardized Texas Tech Athletics game-day weather messaging
The 45-minute estimate proved accurate this time, unlike the August 30 supercell which ran 1 hour 30 minutes, the September 13 storm cell cleared on schedule
Tweet posted about 11 minutes after the initial delay tweet; its X status ID timestamp decodes to 2:58 PM CDT on September 13, 2025
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Background
Jones AT&T Stadium is Texas Tech University's 60,229-seat on-campus football venue in Lubbock, on the southern High Plains. The September 13, 2025 game against Oregon State was Texas Tech's second lightning-related home-game delay in two weeks, following the August 30 supercell delay vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff (documented separately in this archive). At 2:47 PM CDT, lightning was detected within eight miles of the stadium and play was suspended. @TexasTechFB tweeted the standardized lightning-delay message immediately, then followed up about 11 minutes later with the identical 45-minute estimate template that had debuted on August 30. Unlike the supercell delay, the September 13 storm cell cleared on schedule, play resumed at approximately 3:30 PM CDT after about 45 minutes. Texas Tech won 41-7. The standardized @TexasTechFB tweet templates, both the initial "We are currently in a lightning delay" and the follow-up "We are monitoring weather conditions...", are notable as an example of how Power 5 athletics departments are increasingly using preset operational language for repeatable game-day weather events. Jones AT&T Stadium would experience a third weather delay on October 25 vs Oklahoma State, making it one of the most weather-disrupted FBS venues of the 2025 season.
Analysis
Key Findings
The September 13 tweet template is identical to the August 30 supercell tweet — Texas Tech Athletics standardized its weather-hold messaging across the 2025 season
Three home-game weather delays at Jones AT&T Stadium in 2025 (Aug 30, Sep 13, Oct 25), a single-season FBS-leading total tied to the southern High Plains' active August-October convective season
The 45-minute @TexasTechFB estimate proved accurate this time, unlike the August 30 supercell which ran 1 hour 30 minutes, showing how a single-strike clearance differs from a multi-cell supercell evacuation
Verbatim @TexasTechFB tweets archived on X, both tweets remain accessible at TexasTechFB status IDs 1966951843637911824 and 1966954663976333513
Outcome
Game resumed at approximately 3:30 PM CDT. Texas Tech won 41-7. No injuries reported during the seating-bowl evacuation.
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Cite this case
Campus Alert Archive. "Texas Tech University: Lightning within eight miles suspends a football game; play resumed in about 45 minutes." Incident of September 13, 2025. Added May 2026; last updated July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/texas-tech-jones-att-stadium-oregon-state-lightning-delay-2025-09-13/
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