1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 5, 1:43 AM CST, 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 243 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE LINE OF CONVECTION IS CONTINUING ITS EASTWARD PROGRESS EARLY THIS MORNING...AND EXTENDED FROM LAMESA TO MONAHANS TO ALPINE AT 0630Z. THIS LINE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST...AND AFFECT THE EASTERN CWA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THIS CONVECTION DEVELOPED ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF AN UPPER LEVEL LOW LOCATED ALONG THE ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO BORDER THIS EVENING. THIS UPPER LOW IS PROGGED TO SLOWLY MOVE EAST TOWARDS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY...WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY CONTINUING TO MOVE OUT AHEAD OF IT. ETA/AVN BOTH DEPICT THE UPPER SYSTEM SLOWLY PUSHING INTO NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO BY FRIDAY NIGHT...BEFORE BECOMING MORE OF AN INVERTED TROUGH OVER THE AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SCATTERED CONVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA WITH THIS FEATURE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. IN THE EXTENDED...UPPER RIDGE SHOULD BUILD IN ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS AREA BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL GRADUALLY BECOME MORE NORTHEASTERLY...WHICH WILL CUT DOWN PRECIPITATION CHANCES. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MAY PUSH INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE BY MIDWEEK...BUT LATEST PROGS ARE KEEPING THIS BOUNDARY NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA. ISOLATED STORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MIDWEEK...BUT AT THIS TIME WILL LEAVE THE CURRENT EXTENDED AS IS WITH NO MENTION OF RAIN NEXT WEEK. PRELIMINARY TEMPERATURES/PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION: MAF 89/69/88/68 4543 LSA 86/67/86/66 4654 6R6 88/71/87/70 3432 MRF 87/63/86/62 4543 CNM 92/67/91/67 3433 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. CLL
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1259 AM CDT FRI JUL 05 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0813 PM 8 W GARDEN CITY TX TORNADO
07/04/02 GLASSCOCK BRIEF TOUCHDOWN REPORTED
BY SPOTTER.
0830 PM 13 NNW GARDEN CITY TX FLASH FLOOD
07/04/02 GLASSCOCK WATER COVERED HWY 137
NORTH OF HWY 158.
0937 PM 5 S CARLSBAD TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
07/04/02 EDDY REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
1130 PM CARLSBAD NM FLASH FLOOD
07/04/02 EDDY NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WATER
COVERING ROADS IN TOWN.
SOME ROADS IN TOWN HAVE
BEEN BARRICADED.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding was reported by law enforcement on roadways in the city of Alpine.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2002
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: 5303948.