1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 May 15, 1:05 PM CST, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 205 PM CDT SAT MAY 15 2004 .SHORT TERM... BROAD UPPER RIDGE EXTENDS ACROSS SOUTHERN U.S. AS SURFACE RIDGE MOVES EAST ALLOWING FOR RETURN OF SOUTHEAST WIND. HAVE HAD GOOD SURGE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND STRATUS ACROSS EAST SLOW TO BURN OFF. UPSLOPE FLOW AND WEAK CAP SHOULD RESULT IN SOME STORMS OVER AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS. HAVE EXPANDED THE PRECIP COVERAGE TONIGHT TO MOST OF CWA WEST OF THE PECOS. TEMP GRADIENT BETWEEN THE CLOUDY EAST AND SUNNY WEST ABOUT 5 TO 10 DEGREES. SPC MENTION POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS WESTERN CWA WITH A FEW SUPERCELLS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SEE SWODY1 FOR MORE DETAILS. OTHERWISE LOOK FOR STRATUS RETURNING EAST AGAIN OVERNIGHT WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS STAYING UP. .LONG TERM... THE UPPER LOW CURRENTLY NOTED IN VAPOR IMAGERY OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL SLOWLY AMPLIFY AND DIG INTO THE SOUTHWEST U.S. THROUGH THE LONG TERM PORTION OF THIS FORECAST. MEANWHILE...NEAR ZONAL MID/UPPER LEVEL FLOW OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES WILL GRADUALLY BECOME SOUTHWESTERLY AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROUGH BY MONDAY. THIS WILL PROMOTE LEE TROUGHING..AND WITH AT LEAST LIMITED LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...A DRYLINE WILL LIKELY LINGER/SLOSH ACROSS THE FA THROUGH THE EXTENDED. HEIGHTS WILL BUILD AS A MID/UPPER RIDGE SETS IN OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS MAY LIMIT THE COVERAGE OF CONVECTION TO THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE FA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. BY MID WEEK HEIGHTS WILL GRADUALLY FALL. ISOLATED CONVECTION IS EXPECTED NEAR THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND ALONG THE TROUGH/DRYLINE EACH DAY. VERY FEW/MINOR CHANGES MADE TO THE GRIDS TODAY WITH THE PREVIOUS FORECAST HANDLING THE EXPECTED CONDITIONS WELL. THE EXACT THREAT/EVOLUTION OF EACH DAY/S CONVECTION WILL BE DEPENDENT ON SMALLER SCALE FEATURE NOT RESOLVED ATTM...BUT MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE HAS BEEN CONSISTENT DEPICTING A LARGE SCALE PATTERN FAVORABLE FOR AT LEAST ISOLATED SEVERE AS WE GO INTO THE CLIMATOLOGICAL MAXIMUM FOR SEVERE STORMS ACROSS WEST TEXAS BY THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 60 87 62 91 / 0 0 0 10 CARLSBAD NM 57 90 60 94 / 10 20 20 0 DRYDEN TX 63 85 66 89 / 10 10 10 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 62 89 65 92 / 10 10 10 10 GUADALUPE PASS TX 57 85 60 91 / 10 20 20 0 HOBBS NM 58 91 61 95 / 0 10 10 0 MARFA TX 52 83 52 90 / 10 20 20 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 60 86 63 91 / 0 10 10 10 ODESSA TX 60 86 63 91 / 0 10 10 10 WINK TX 63 93 65 98 / 0 10 10 10 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. && 72/10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 255 PM CDT SAT MAY 15 2004 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-161000- 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- 255 PM CDT (155 PM MDT) SAT MAY 15 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF THE PECOS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP OVER THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND DRIFT EASTWARD. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WIND... AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON GENERALLY WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Several strong to severe thunderstorms affected the area from the Guadalupe Mountains south through the Big Bend on the afternoon and evening of the 15th. The public reported severe thunderstorm winds in Presidio.
Lightning struck an insulator on a power pole near Presidio in the southern part of Presidio County. Damage caused by the lightning strike resulted in an eleven-hour power outage in the cities of Presidio, Shafter, and Redford. Electrical power was finally restored to area residents during the mid morning of Sunday the 16th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5394062, 5394063.