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 Jun 8, 2:08 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 308 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003 VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWS LOW CLOUDS BANKED UP AGAINST E SLOPES OF MTNS WITH MOIST ELY FLOW PUSHED THRU MTNS. MEANWHILE 7H-5H LR/S ARE STEEP ACRS THE TRANS PECOS AND WITH DWPNTS NEAR 50 DAVIS/CHISOS MTNS INSTABILITY IS HIGH. BY 00Z RUCII/ETA ARE FCSTING LIS TO MINUS 8 AND CAPES TO 2500 J/KG. EXPECT LOW CLOUDS TO ERODE BY THIS PM ALLOWING FOR SUFFICIENT SFC HEATING E INTO CENTRAL PECOS/REEVES COUNTIES...MTNS SHOULD BE IN GOOD INSOLATION ALL DAY SO STORMS SHOULD HAVE LITTLE PROBLEM INITIATING THERE THIS PM. WEAKNESS IN RUCII MSL PRESSURE PROG 18-24Z SUGGEST BOUNDARY ACRS RGN AS WELL. 7H WIND DECREASES TO 10KT BY 00Z BUT WITH HIGH INSTABILITY SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. WLY STEERING FLOW SHOULD GENERALY FAVOR KEEPING STORMS NEAR PECOS RIVER AND SWD. MONDAY...A WEAK DRYLINE WILL SHARPEN UP OVR THE CNTRL PLAINS SWD. WHILE THIS FEATURE WON/T BE AS WELL-DEFINED THIS FAR S...MODELS ONCE AGAIN MOISTEN UP THE PBL PAST THE WRN ZONES. W/BETTER INSOLATION... AND EXPECTED RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES FM TONIGHT/S MEXICAN MCS... EXPECTED STORMS TO FIRE OMTNS AND WORK WESTWARD AS WRLY STEERING FLOW INCREASES. AS THESE STORMS WORK E...SOME COULD GO SEVERE ON THE TAIL END OF THE DRYLINE EXTENDING OUT OF THE TX PANHANDLE...IN BETTER INSTABILITIES. ON TUESDAY...ETA CONTINUES TO ADVERTISE A SHORTWAVE MOVG THROUGH THE ZONAL FLOW...ANOTHER DRYLINE...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE SVR WX. SEE SWODY3 FOR FURTHER DETAILS. THINGS THEN QUIET DOWN FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS...UNTIL THU EVENING...WHEN THE GFS BRING ANOTHER SHORTWAVE INTO THE AREA AND GENERATES AN MCS NE OF THE FA. 6-HR QUPS SUGGEST A FLOOD EVENT--W/BULLSEYES IN EXCESS OF 3 IN...BUT ATTM IT LOOKS AS IF ONLY OUR 2 ERNMOST COUNTIES MIGHT CATCH THE WRN EDGE OF IT. WILL INSERT ISOLATED CHANCES THERE. REST OF THE EXTENDED LOOKS DRY AS RIDGING SETS IN. OTHERWISE...TEMPS TO WARM THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AND SHOULD BE AOA NORMAL BY TUESDAY. && MAF BB 067/090 074/095 069 122 CNM BU 065/092 068/092 065 210 MRF EU 060/087 061/087 057 31- FST EU 069/095 073/099 070 311 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. 44
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-090800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 156 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TRANS PECOS REGION OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. FLOODING OF CREEKS...ARROYOS...AND LOW LYING URBAN AREAS ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MONDAY AND TUESDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EAST OF A LINE FROM SEMINOLE TO FORT STOCKTON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple reports of hail ranging from nickel to ping pong ball size were received from the Marfa vicinity as an isolated severe thunderstorm affected the area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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