1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 20, 1:30 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 330 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002 KMAF 88-D SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS FIRING THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MAINLY THE WESTERN CWA AS CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES ARE REACHED. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA REMAINS VERY MOIST...KMAF 12Z 850MB DEW POINT OF 19C ALONG WITH 19Z SURFACE DEW POINTS NEAR 60 WEST TO NEAR 70 EAST. 18Z ETA LAGGING BEHIND WITH REGARDS TO COVERAGE OF CONVECTION...BUT OVERALL IT DOESN/T LOOK TOO BAD. HIGHEST POPS TONIGHT IN THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS...WITH A MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS GIVEN SLOW STORM MOVEMENT AND HIGH PWATS...LOWEST POPS EAST. LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE IS SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY/S DATA WITH THE UPPER AIR PATTERN OVER THE SOUTHERN U.S. LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE WORK WEEK. CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR POPS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS AND DRY WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. THIS LOOKS FINE GIVEN PERSISTENT HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT...SO WE WILL LEAVE THE BULK OF THE CURRENT FORECAST ALONE. EXTENDED MODELS STILL IN DISARRAY WITH PAC NW LOW...BUT ARE SIMILAR WITH AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. AND A SHARP UPPER TROUGH OVER THE NORHEAST. GFS AND THE CANADIAN MODELS STILL A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY NOSING INTO THE AREA LATE SUNDAY/EARLY MONDAY. WE HAVE INTRODUCED SOME SLIGHTLY COOLER (CLOSER TO CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMALS) TEMPS AND SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR ROUGHLY THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MAF 74/ 99/ 74 / 98 2000 LSA 72/ 97/ 70 / 96 2000 6R6 76/ 97/ 75 / 96 3000 MRF 62/ 89/ 63 / 91 6333 CNM 70/ 99/ 71 /101 2-1- .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. PLATT
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-210456- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 200 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002 .SYNOPSIS... AFTERNOON HEATING AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CREATE AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .WEATHER HAZARDS... THUNDERSTORMS... THE POSSIBILITY FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS MOST OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS TO 55 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LINDLEY
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 180 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:48 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law officials reported that high winds from a severe thunderstorm caused blinding dust and downed power lines...creating power outages.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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