3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 19, 2:08 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 308 PM CDT TUE SEP 18 2001 PLENTY OF INSTABILITY TO WORK W/TDY...AS NOTED BY ABUNDANT MORNING ACCAS AND KMAFS 12Z SOUNDING...W/LIS OF -6 AND 3400+ J/KG SBCAPES. KMAF 88D SHOWS CONVECTION EASILY FIRING OVR THE DAVIS MTNS...AND EXPECT SOME OF THIS TO MIGRATE/DEVELOP OVR THE ADJACENT PLAINS THIS EVENING AS WELL. ALSO OF NOTE...A SHORTWAVE IS PROGGED TO CLIP THE NERN ZONES OVER NIGHT...W/H85 35+KT LLJ DEVELOPING OVR THE NE PB AND LL WAA...AND SOME DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THERE AS WELL. AS UNSTABLE AS THINGS ARE...IT WONT TAKE MUCH FOR OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TO KICK THINGS OFF FURTHER S...BUT WILL DEFER THIS TO THE SWING SHIFT TO MONITOR. OTHERWISE...ATMOSPHERE TO REMAIN PLENTY UNSTABLE OVR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...W/NO SIGNS OF DRYING OUT ANYTIME SOON. NOT MUCH TO HANG A HAT ON IN THE WAY OF MAJOR CONVECTIVE TRIGGERS...BUT PLENTY OF MINOR PERTURBATIONS ARE ADVERTISED. FIRST INCLINATION WAS TO SHOTGUN POPS...BUT HAVE TRIED TO NARROW IT SOMEWHAT BASED ON THE PROGGED TRACKS OF THESE FEATURES. GUIDANCE IS TOTALLY OUT TO LUNCH ON TEMPS...AVERAGING ABOUT 4 AND 3 DEG F ON LOWS AND HIGHS...RESPECTIVELY. W/OLD MEX RIDGE STILL PROGGED TO DEVELOP N...WILL KEEP THINGS WARM FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...THEN TEMPER TEMPS A BIT AS NEXT SYSTEM TRIES TO BACKDOOR A WEAK FRONT INTO THE AREA SAT. NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. THE PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE BELOW IS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE WEST TEXAS/SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ZONE FORECAST. MAF 70/97/70/89 --11 LSA 69/95/67/91 1121 6R6 71/96/70/93 1--1 MRF 64/88/61/86 1111 CNM 67/95/67/94 --11 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. 44
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-201000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 318 PM CDT WED SEP 19 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK NORTHWARD MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY COUPLED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS OF WEST TEXAS...WILL RESULT IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN OVERNIGHT. ABUNDANT QUANTITIES OF MOISTURE IN PLACE OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS COUPLED WITH FAVORABLE WINDS WILL ALSO RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER AND ADJACENT TO THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS THROUGH LATE EVENING. .THREATS... THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD NOT BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH STRONGER STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS THIS EVENING. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SOME LOW AREAS...INCLUDING NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AND OTHER LOW WATER SPOTS. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. PV/03
TXZ061-062-192315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 512 PM CDT WED SEP 19 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING STRONG WIND DOWNBURSTS... AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS DETECTING A DOWNBURST OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS...NEAR MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. AS THIS DOWNBURST CONTINUES TO AFFECT EASTERN PORTIONS OF ECTOR COUNTY AND WESTERN MIDLAND COUNTY...WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ALONG WITH VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO DUE TO BLOWING DUST WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THIS DOWNBURST. SMALL ROTATING EDDIES CALLED GUSTNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF OF THE STRONGER WINDS. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT THESE STRONG DOWNDRAFT WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP LATER THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE STRONG DOWNDRAFTS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AND TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PV/03
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:39 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
70mph thunderstorm outflow winds along with dime size hail were observed as a rapidly developing thunderstorm moved across the Midland International Airport.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5269692, 5269693, 5269695, 5269694.