Severe thunderstorms were widespread across the Permian Basin on the 13th. Numerous storms resulted in large hail and damaging thunderstorm winds.
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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 episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms were widespread across the Permian Basin on the 13th. Numerous storms resulted in large hail and damaging thunderstorm winds. Flash flooding also resulted. A pair of supercell thunderstorms trained across northern Midland County. The second of these storms produced golfball hail over a large swath of the city of Midland. Other supercell thunderstorms resulted in hail up to the size of golfballs across southeast Midland County and Pecos County.
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 Jun 13, 1:11 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 211 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT IS TAKING SHAPE ACROSS PARTS OF WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO TO THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. A SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY TRACKING ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO/SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TEMPERATURES ARE WARMING INTO THE 80S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S...YIELDING CAPE VALUES ABOVE 4000 J/KG ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER TRANS PECOS REGION. CONVECTION HAS ALREADY FIRED ALONG THE BOUNDARY FROM JUST EAST OF MIDLAND TO NEAR COLORADO CITY...AND MORE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL PLACE THE HIGHEST PROBABILITIES FOR RAIN ACROSS THE NORTHEAST ZONES...TAPERING OFF TO A SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE TRANS PECOS REGION. AREAS IN THE MOUNTAINS CURRENTLY HAVE DEWPOINTS IN THE 20S...AND EXPECT GENERALLY DRY WEATHER FROM THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND POINTS WEST TONIGHT. THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL SLOWLY TRANSLATE TO EAST TEXAS BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE UPPER FLOW WILL BECOME MORE NORTHWESTERLY ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SHORTWAVES EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS FLOW MAY HELP SPARK SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. BOTH THE ETA AND GFS DEPICT A CONVECTIVE COMPLEX BECOMING ORGANIZED NEAR THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SATURDAY NIGHT. FOR NOW WE WILL GO FOR A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST OF THE TRANS PECOS...WITH SLIGHT CHANCES ELSEWHERE...BUT POPS MAY NEED TO BE BUMPED UP BY LATER SHIFTS. THE UPPER FLOW WILL TRANSITION TO A MORE NORTHERLY DIRECTION NEXT WEEK IN BETWEEN THE UPPER RIDGE IN THE WEST AND THE UPPER TROUGH NEAR THE ARKLATEX REGION. THINK THE BEST CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND TUESDAY WILL BE OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE AREA AS CONVECTION MAY FIRE ALONG THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND PROPOGATE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND THE TRANS PECOS. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY ARE A BIT MORE HAZY AS THE GFS SHOWS THE UPPER RIDGE STRENGHTENING OVER THE FOUR CORNERS AREA WHILE CUTTING OFF A LOW OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC. THE EUROPEAN MODEL/S OPINION IS TO BREAK DOWN THE RIDGE WEDNESDAY AND BRING THE UPPER TROUGH EAST TOWARDS ARIZONA AND UTAH THURSDAY. WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE FOR NOW AND MAINTAIN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR THE THETA-E RIDGE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...WHILE KEEPING THE PLAINS DRY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: MAF 69 90 67 91 / 40 30 40 20 CNM 67 94 65 95 / 10 10 30 20 MRF 59 91 60 89 / 00 10 20 20 FST 70 94 69 94 / 30 20 30 20 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. CL
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-132000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1046 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING EAST OF A GAIL TO COLORADO CITY LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON. PLATT
TXZ045>048-050>053-060>063-069-070-140000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1210 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 700 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN WEST TEXAS... ANDREWS...BORDEN...DAWSON...ECTOR...GAINES...GLASSCOCK...HOWARD... MARTIN...MIDLAND...MITCHELL...REAGAN...SCURRY...UPTON AND WINKLER THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... ANDREWS...BIG LAKE...BIG SPRING...COLORADO CITY...GAIL...GARDEN CITY...KERMIT...LAMESA...MCCAMEY...MIDLAND...ODESSA...RANKIN... SEMINOLE...SNYDER AND STANTON A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR GREATER AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH AREA...CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS...KEEP INFORMED...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED.
TXZ045>048-050>053-060>063-069-070-132300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1210 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 600 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN WEST TEXAS... ANDREWS...BORDEN...DAWSON...ECTOR...GAINES...GLASSCOCK...HOWARD... MARTIN...MIDLAND...MITCHELL...REAGAN...SCURRY...UPTON AND WINKLER THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... ANDREWS...BIG LAKE...BIG SPRING...COLORADO CITY...GAIL...GARDEN CITY...KERMIT...LAMESA...MCCAMEY...MIDLAND...ODESSA...RANKIN... SEMINOLE...SNYDER AND STANTON A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR GREATER AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH AREA...CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS...KEEP INFORMED...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:25 UTC.
12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding resulted in high water covering several rural roadways in southwest Glasscock County. Farm to Market Road 1357 was impassable.
Flash flooding resulted in high water flowing over County Road 337.
Over three feet of water was reported flowing over the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 1357 and 1379 as a result of flash flooding.
Reported at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 1357 and 1379.
Ham radio spotters reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and blew the roof off of a metal storage building on the northeast side of Big Spring.
Reported on Farm to Market Road 1357.
Reported on County Road 1133.
Reported at the intersection of Highway 87 and Farm to Market Road 2411.
Numerous reports of large hail ranging in size from quarters to golfballs were received from the north and east sides of the city of Midland. The swath of hail generally stretched east and southeast from the Wal-Mart store at Midland Drive and Loop 250 in Midland to Greenwood. No reports of significant damage were received, however, minor damage to vehicles and roofs likely occurred.
Reported on Farm to Market Road 1558 just east of the Upton/Reagan County line.
Reported on the north side of the city.
Severe thunderstorm winds at the Rio Pecos Power Plant resulted in damage to Power Unit #5.
Reported on Interstate 10.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 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: 5362780, 5362779, 5362778, 5363742, 5363743, 5363787, 5363744, 5363745, 5363741, 5363788, 5362769, 5362768, 5362770, 5362771, 5362774, 5362772, 5362773, 5362777, 5362775, 5362776.