1 hail, 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 Sep 9, 12:24 PM MST, 8 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 224 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2003 .SHORT TERM... KMAF 88D SHOWING TYPICAL DIURNAL MTN CONVECTION FIRING OUT WEST A LITTLE EARLIER THAN YESTERDAY ALONG GOOD LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE IN VICINITY OF TROUGH/DRYLINE ROUGHLY ALONG AND W/OF THE PECOS. ACCAS HAS BEEN HANGING AROUND OUT THE WINDOW ALL DAY. MEANWHILE...WV IMAGERY SHOWS BROAD UPPER LVL TROUGH OVR SWRN STATES...CAUSING SVR WX AND FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS THERE OVR THE PAST FEW HRS. MODELS PROG W-SWRLY MID LVL WINDS TO START INCREASING THIS EVENING...AND DRYLINE/TROUGH TO START ADVANCING E. PROGS SHOW DEEP LR/S APPROACHING 7-8 C/KM OVER N-NERN CWA...AND IF TIMING IS RIGHT... THINGS SHOULD START GET GOING DURING THE EVENING HRS OVR THE N CNTRL TO NE CWA AS DRYLINE/CONVERGENCE AXIS APPROACHES. LATEST GOES SOUNDINGS INDICATE BEST INSTABILITIES OF ROUGHLY 2500 J/KG OVER THE WRN LOW ROLLING PLAINS...W/LI/S OF -5 OR SO. COUPLE THIS W/A 25KT PBL LLJ ON THE ERN SIDE OF THE DRYLINE BY 03Z...AND WILL KEEP BEST CHANCES ORIENTED AS ANTECEDENTLY FCST. FCST WIND PROFILES ARE ONLY MARGINAL FOR SVR DEVELOPMENT...BUT CAN/T RULE OUT AN ISOLATED CELL DEVELOPING INVOF DRYLINE IN NE ZONES...BEFORE EXITING THE AREA TO THE NE. FOR TEMPS...FINALLY GUIDANCE NUMBERS SEEM TO BE OVERCOMING THEIR COLD BIAS AND COMING MORE IN LINE W/WHAT TEMP PROGS HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR...W/AVN NUMBERS BEING THE WARMEST. WILL STICK CLOSE TO THEM. && .LONG TERM... SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDING THROUGH EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND INTO WEST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WEDNESDAY. A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL TRANSLATE NORTHEAST OVER THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...PRECEDING A MORE SUBSTANTIAL UPPER TROUGH THURSDAY/FRIDAY. INSTABILITY AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG SURFACE TROUGH/DRYLINE APPEAR TO BE SUFFICIENT FOR AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SHEAR PROFILES LOOK CONDUCIVE FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. INHERITED GRIDS HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS SCENARIO. BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES APPEAR TO BE ON THE WAY AS AN UNUSUALLY STRONG UPPER TROUGH WILL HEAD THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT/ FRIDAY. FORTUNATELY...THE MODELS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT IN THE HANDLING OF THE ASSOCIATED FEATURES THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE. HAVE BASICALLY TENDED TOWARD THE SLIGHTLY SLOWER ETA SOLUTION. THIS PORTENDS TSRA DEVELOPING INITIALLY ALONG SURFACE TROUGH AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...THEN ALONG COLD FRONT WHICH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH INTO THE AREA DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. COULD SEE MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY AS UPPER DYNAMICS WILL BE BETTER THAN WEDNESDAY...BUT SHEAR WONT BE AS GOOD. EXPECT TO SEE MORE MULTICELL...MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS LOOKS LIKE IT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT/EARLY FRIDAY SO WILL LESSEN POPS FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST...BEFORE DRYING US OUT COMPLETELY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. WILL LOWER TEMPS THURSDAY...MORE SO FOR LOWER HEIGHTS/PRECIP THAN FOR CAA BEHIND FRONT. COOLED FRIDAY OFF FOR CAA BEHIND FRONT. WILL SEE A LITTLE WARMUP SATURDAY AS RETURN FLOW SETS UP. SEVERAL MEDIUM RANGE MODELS INDICATING A SECONDARY SHORTWAVE TROUGH DROPPING SOUTHEAST INTO THE BASE OF UPPER TROUGH SUNDAY...SO HAVE ADDED A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSRA THEN SINCE MOISTURE LOOKS SUFFICIENT AND WILL HAVE ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY HEADING THROUGH THE AREA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MAF 69 90 67 84 / 30 30 30 30 CNM 66 93 63 83 / 20 20 30 20 MRF 60 84 57 81 / 20 20 30 30 FST 71 94 67 88 / 30 30 30 30 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .TX...NONE. .NM...NONE. && 44/67
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-101000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 334 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. DEADLY LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN TO DECLINE A FEW HOURS AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...AND OTHER INTERESTED CONCERNS SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN YOUR AREA. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH THIS EVENING NORTH OF AN ANDREWS...STANTON...TO COLORADO CITY. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT http://www.srh.noaa.gov/maf.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:26 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Scattered thunderstorms moved across the plains of southeast New Mexico during the evening of the 9th. An isolated storm became severe and resulted in large hail in the Hobbs vicinity.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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