1 flash flood, 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 Nov 5, 7:04 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 704 PM CST WED NOV 5 2003 .UPDATE... HAVE INCREASE POPS TO CHANCE ACROSS ALL OF TRANS PECOS AS TSTMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN LOW LEVEL CONVERGENT AXIS INVOF FRONT ACRS WRN/SRN PECOS COUNTY. TSTMS MOVING ENE INTO 85H WAA REGIME. RUCII INDICATES SERIES OF SHRTWV TROF/S MOVING THRU FLOW OVERNIGHT WITH UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE PROGGED TO INCREASE PER RUCII BY 06Z. HEAVY RAIN A CONCERN SHORT TERM WITH STORMS FOCUSED S PECOS/NRN TERRELL COUNTIES. 85H-3H VWS NEAR 65KTS WITH 85H BASED CAPES NEAR 1000 J/KG...AS SUCH BRIEFLY ORGANIZED STORMS POSSIBLE. .SHORT TERM... COLD FRONT THAT HAS PUSHED INTO AREA BRINGING A CHANGE IN WEATHER. CURRENTLY FRONT HUNG UP SOUTH OF A KHOB TO KMAF LINE BUT SHOULD SLOWLY START MOVING SOUTH AFTER SUNSET. MESOETA WILL KEEP NEGATIVE LI/S AHEAD OF THE FRONT TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER THE TRANS PECOS DOWN INTO THE BIG BEND. COULD SEE A FEW MORE STORMS DEVELOP IN THIS AREA AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE PLENTIFUL. SHOWERS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF AREA DUE TO ISENTROPIC LIFT. MODELS TEND TO KEEP PRECIP MOSTLY EAST OF AREA BUT WILL INCLUDE AT LEAST LOW POPS MOST OF THE AREA. AS FAR AS TEMPS ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER SHOULD HELP KEEP OVERNIGHT READINGS FROM DROPPING TOO FAR...WILL GO NEAR CURRENT DEWPOINTS. SURFACE WINDS WILL BECOME MORE EASTERLY OVERNIGHT. && .LONG TERM... INTERESTING FORECAST CHALLENGE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THREE AIRMASSES SEEM TO BE FIGHTING FOR POSITION OVER WEST TEXAS. POLAR AIRMASS IS STILL CREEPING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH...WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS TO THE SOUTHEAST IS RETREATING SLOWLY BACK TO THE SOUTH...AND VERY DRY AND WARMER AIR IS POSITIONED OVER THE WESTERN 1/3 OF THE CWA. THESE THREE WILL INTERACT OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS A FAIRLY STRONG JET STREAM CONTINUES ALOFT PROVIDING A GOOD SET UP FOR RAIN OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA...AND MAINLY THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL NEAR A LINE ROUGHLY FROM VAN HORN TO BAKERSFIELD DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY BEFORE WINDS THEN START BACKING TO THE SOUTHEAST AGAIN OVER MOST OF THE CWA. 850MB FLOW WILL STAY SOUTH OR SOUTHEASTERLY THROUGHOUT THE TIME-FRAME SETTING UP GOOD WAA OVER THE TOP OF THE COLD AIRMASS AT THE SURFACE AND PROVIDING AN /OVER-RUNNING/ SITUATION. ISENTROPIC LIFT LOOKS VERY GOOD AT THE 302K LEVEL THROUGH THE PERIOD AS WELL. SO...FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN...WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND LOWER TRANS PECOS...THE NEXT THREE DAYS WILL BE MAINLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MAINLY LIGHT RAIN OR SHOWERS MUCH OF THE TIME. THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN AT THIS TIME HOWEVER DOES APPEAR TO BE EAST OF OUR AREA WHERE BETTER MOISTURE RESIDES. WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE GOING FORECAST AS THE GRIDS ARE IN GOOD SHAPE FOR THE UPCOMING POTENTIAL WEATHER. FURTHER OUT IN THE EXTENDED...SOUTHWEST FLOW SETS UP OVER THE AREA BY EARLY MONDAY IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG SHORTWAVE THAT APPROACHES THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MAF 48 55 43 54 / 20 30 50 30 CNM 42 63 40 57 / 0 0 20 30 MRF 44 67 40 61 / 20 0 10 20 FST 53 60 47 59 / 20 20 40 20 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. && 72/20
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 221 PM CST WED NOV 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. WHILE THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE... ONE OR TWO STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING... GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE PECOS RIVER.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:19 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement officials reported high water running across Farm to Market Road 2400 as a result of flash flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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