1 hail, 1 tornado, 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 14, 2:10 PM CST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 310 PM CDT SAT SEP 14 2002 PRIMARY CONCERN THIS CYCLE IS CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL...INCLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW SEVERE STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT IS MAKING ITS WAY SOUTH INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS. A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO SPIN OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...WITH THE BASE OF A POSITIVELY TILTED TROUGH AXIS OVER THE AREA. CLEAR SLOT NOTED ON VAPOR IMAGERY IS AIDING IN STRONG INSOLATION. THIS COMBINED WITH A COLD POOL ALOFT IS PROVIDING STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND MODERATE INSTABILITY OVER THE AREA. EARLY AFTERNOON RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS INDICATE CONVECTION DEVELOPING ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS...WITH HINTS OF ISOLATED CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG THE BOUNDARY TO THE NORTH. CURRENT THINKING IS A CONVECTIVE COMPLEX SHOULD DEVELOP OVER THE BASIN AND UPPER TRANS PECOS BY EARLY EVENING. THIS COMPLEX SHOULD PROPAGATE SOUTH AND EAST THROUGH THE NIGHT. WITH THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY...LIS AROUND -7 DEGREES C...AND MARGINAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR...EXPECT RISK OF A FEW SEVERE STORMS TO EXIST THROUGH EARLY EVENING. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF COLD AIR ALOFT...MAIN CONCERN WILL BE LARGE HAIL. HOWEVER...WITH INVERTED V BOUNDARY LAYER...COULD ALSO SEE DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO BE A CONCERN ACROSS THE SOUTH AS HIGHER JET LEVEL WIND SPEEDS BEGIN TO NOSE INTO THE BIG BEND BY EARLY EVENING...ENHANCING ASCENT. WE MAY HAVE TO INCREASE POPS FOR TOMORROW...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTH. OTHERWISE...THE REST OF THE FORECAST WILL BE MOSTLY UNCHANGED ATTM. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW... MAF 59/75/58/80 532- LSA 56/76/55/79 432- 6R6 65/82/64/85 432- MRF 54/74/51/78 433- CNM 58/76/55/81 332- .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. LINDLEY
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 300 PM CDT SAT SEP 14 2002 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL ROTATE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA. NORTHEASTERLY UPSLOPE WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL COMBINE WITH LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM SYSTEM TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS. .WEATHER HAZARDS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON NEAR THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS...THEN SPREAD EAST INTO THE PLAINS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN IN THE VICINITY OF THE SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE MAIN AREAS TO BE IMPACTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND BIG BEND REGION INTO THE LOWER TRANS PECOS WHERE WIND FIELDS WILL BE MOST SUPPORTIVE...HOWEVER ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE NEAR THE FRONT ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:12 UTC.
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports of large hail were received from the Odessa area...as a severe thunderstorm developed and moved south. The storm was short lived, but produced hail to the size of half dollars.
Officials in Pecos County reported a brief tornado near the city of Imperial. No damage or injuries were reported. The tornado formed as an outflow boundary interacted with a severe storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2002Warnings in Texas, September 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: 5315517, 5315518.