Isolated severe thunderstorms developed over the central Permian Basin and Big Bend of west Texas during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 5th. Numerous reports of large hail were received from Ector County as storms affected areas from Odessa and West Odessa to Pleasant Farms.
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Isolated severe thunderstorms developed over the central Permian Basin and Big Bend of west Texas during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 5th. Numerous reports of large hail were received from Ector County as storms affected areas from Odessa and West Odessa to Pleasant Farms. A severe storm in southern Brewster County damaged a large water storage tank.
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 5, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 305 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 .SHORT TERM... NOT MUCH CHANGE TO THE GRIDS TONIGHT. CUMULUS SLOWER TO DEVELOP TODAY THAN YESTERDAY BUT STILL EXPECTING AT LEAST SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION TO EVENTUALLY DEVELOP AS THE CAP CONTINUES TO WEAKEN IN THE WEST TEXAS PLAINS AS THE DRYLINE SHARPENS LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY THIS EVENING WITH A MORE IMPRESSIVE MOISTURE GRADIENT TODAY UNDER INTENSE HEATING. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED EVENING CONVECTION LOOKS REASONABLE IN THE WEST TEXAS HIGHER TERRAIN. USED 12Z MONDAY ETA MOS FOR WINDS TONIGHT...OTHERWISE JUST MINOR TWEAKS TO THE GRIDS. .LONG TERM... THE INITIAL FOCUS OF THE LONG TERM FORECAST WILL BE ON THE TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING TIMEFRAME. SHORT RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO AGREE ON A COLD FRONT MOVING DOWN INTO THE NORTHERN CWA BY LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO FIRE ALONG THE FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS AS WELL AS THE PLAINS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. THE ETA EVEN HINTS AT A POSSIBLE MCS MOVING OUT OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INTO THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS OVERNIGHT TUESDAY. DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE BUT GIVEN THE AVAILABLE CAPE...CAN NOT RULE OUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN 1/3 OF THE CWA AND WE HAVE ADDED MENTION OF SAME TO THE GRIDS/ZONES. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY QUICKLY RETREATS NORTH ON WEDNESDAY. LEFTOVER CONVECTIVE BOUNDARIES AND A DRYLINE OVER THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS GIVE THE NORTHERN 1/3 OF THE CWA A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE OF STORMS ON WEDNESDAY. THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST WILL BE CENTERED OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS/BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS IN PROXIMITY TO THE DRYLINE. THE CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD HERE WITH ISOLATED AFTERNOON/EVENING STORMS OVER THE ABOVE MENTIONED REGIONS. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS THE AREA WITH WARM 850MB TEMPERATURES. THE ONLY CHANGE TO THE TEMPERATURE GRIDS WAS TO BOOST FORECAST HIGHS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE AND FOR ALPINE. THE REMAINDER OF THE GRIDS NEEDED ONLY MINOR CHANGES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 70 98 72 94 / 20 20 30 30 CARLSBAD NM 66 102 68 99 / 0 10 20 10 DRYDEN TX 70 99 72 99 / 10 10 20 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 70 102 73 101 / 20 20 20 10 GUADALUPE PASS TX 65 96 68 95 / 0 0 10 10 HOBBS NM 68 99 70 97 / 0 20 30 10 MARFA TX 58 92 59 91 / 20 10 10 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 71 99 73 97 / 20 20 30 20 ODESSA TX 71 100 72 98 / 10 20 30 20 WINK TX 73 107 75 105 / 10 20 30 10 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. && 12/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 205 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-061030- ANDREWS-BIG BEND AREA-BORDEN-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-CRANE- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-DAWSON-ECTOR-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-GAINES- GLASSCOCK-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY- HOWARD-LOVING-MARFA PLATEAU-MARTIN-MIDLAND-MITCHELL- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-REAGAN- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-SCURRY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY- TERRELL-UPTON-VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-WARD-WINKLER- 205 PM CDT (105 PM MDT) MON JUL 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING ALONG A DRYLINE FROM THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS NORTHEAST INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DISSIPATE LATER THIS EVENING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA ON TUESDAY. THIS INCLUDES THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS. OTHERWISE...THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS AND SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:06 UTC.
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports of penny to nickel size hail were received from the Odessa and West Odessa area.
A large water tank was blown over by severe thunderstorm winds near the Terlingua Ranch Lodge east of State Highway 118.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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