2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jul 23, 7:54 PM MST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 954 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO HOLD ON ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO AND THE UPPER TRANS PECOS REGION. STORMS ACROSS THE LOWER TRANS PECOS REGION HAVE WEAKENED. DID RECEIVE SOME REPORTS OF HAIL THIS EVENING...MOST NOTABLY QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN WEST ODESSA AND QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. NOW ATTENTION IS BEING FOCUSED ON CONVECTIVE COMPLEX RIDING SOUTH ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS ARE MAINTAINING THEIR INTENSITY. INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET OF 25-35KT MAY KEEP THESE STORMS GOING FOR A WHILE...SO HAVE INCREASED POPS IN THE NORTHWEST FOR TONIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN ISOLATED STORMS SOUTH OF I-20 TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT WEAKENING CONVECTION THAT MAY LAST ANOTHER COUPLE OF HOURS. MADE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS TO SKY...WIND...AND TEMPERATURE GRIDS TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT TRENDS. UPDATED GRIDS AND TEXT FORECASTS WILL BE SENT OUT SHORTLY. .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE.
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-240800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1000 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD THROUGH LEA COUNTY TONIGHT AND THEN INTO THE NORTHWEST PERMIAN BASIN. SOME STORMS WILL BE STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCAL FLOODING POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1051 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM 5 W BAKERSFIELD TX WIND DAMAGE
07/23/03 PECOS 2 INCH DIAMETER
TREE LIMBS DOWNED.
REPORTED BY
COOPERATIVE OBSERVER.
0730 PM 2 S MONAHANS TX .88 INCH HAIL
07/23/03 WARD REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0745 PM 30 S FORT STOCKTON TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/23/03 PECOS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0825 PM WEST ODESSA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/23/03 ECTOR RELAYED BY TV
METEOROLOGIST.
0835 PM WEST ODESSA TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/23/03 ECTOR REPORTED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF I-20
AND WESTCLIFF BY
FIRE DEPT.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Local authorities closed Highway 82 near Loco Hills as flash flooding resulted in high water crossing the highway.
Flash flooding resulted in high water flowing through city streets in Artesia. High water also crossed Highway 285 south of Artesia near Eagle Draw.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 2003
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: 5367545, 5367546.