Let \((G,\kappa )\) be a compact connected Lie group endowed with a biinvariant Riemannian metric, and let \(\tilde{G}\) be the complexification of G. We apply Grauert tube techniques to the near-diagonal scaling asymptotics of certain operator kernels, which are defined in terms of the matrix elements of an irreducible representation drifting to infinity along a ray in weight space. These kernels are the equivariant components of Poisson and Szegő kernels on a fixed sphere bundle in \(\tilde{G}\) , when the latter is identified with the tangent bundle of G in an appropriate way.