2 hail, 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 7, 12:54 PM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 154 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 2004 .SHORT TERM... WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW THAT HELPED SET OFF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BIG BEND YESTERDAY HAS MOVED EAST OF OUR AREA TODAY. VERY UNSTABLE... MOIST AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER EASTERN AREAS WITH 60F DEWPOINTS REACHING ALMOST AS FAR NORTHWEST AS KCNM TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THE COVERAGE TO INCREASE SOMEWHAT...BUT NOT EXPECTING AS MUCH ACTIVITY AS YESTERDAY...SINCE THE UPPER LEVEL LOW HAS PUSHED EAST. STRONG 35KT TO 40KT LOW-LEVEL JET WILL DEVELOP AGAIN OVER MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA. THIS WILL HELP KEEP WINDS UP OVERNIGHT...AND ALONG WITH RICH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...WILL KEEP LOW TEMPERATURES FROM COOLING TOO MUCH. .LONG TERM... WEAK MID LEVEL FLOW FLOW PERSIST ACRS SWRN U.S. SAT AS MINOR SHRTWV TROF/S PASSES ACRS REGION. THIS WITH SFC LOW PRESSURE IN CENTRAL PLAINS WILL FAVOR A SLY SFC COMPONENT KEEPING MSTR IN PLACE. MODELS SUGGEST ORGANIZED SHRTWV TROF TO APPROACH W TX LATE SAT WITH SHRTWV RIDGING TO DEVELOP DOWNSTREAM ACRS PB. RATHER WELL DEFINED DRYLINE WILL LYE ACRS ERN NM S INTO LOWLANDS OF WRN LOWER TRANS PECOS. A LOOK AT KMAF/KFST SOUNDING DOESNT REVEAL STRONG CAP HOWEVER MID LEVEL THCK WARMING IS NOTED IN 7H-5H LAYER. ATTP FAVOR DAVIS MTN/BIG BEND STORMS AND WILL LEAVE POPS OUT OF PB FOR NOW. BY SUN MID LEVEL RIDGING MOVES E WITH AFOREMENTIONED SHRTWV TROF IN W TX. LIFT ASSOCD WITH SHRTWV SHOULD BE FACILITATED BY 8 C/KM 7H-5H LR/S...WORTH AT LEAST 20 PCT POPS MOST AREAS. WEAKISH MID LEVEL FLOW PERSISTING INTO MONDAY FAVORS A WWD POSITION OF DRYLINE...HOWEVER GFS INCREASES 7H TEMPS TO 14C ACRS MEXICAN PLATEAU AND WITH SW 15KT 7H WIND IT LOOKS AS IF EML WILL MINIMIZE TSTMS. BY TUES PM WLY MID LEVEL FLOW FINALLY STRENGTHENS TO 30KTS THRU 7H-5H PUSHING DRYLINE INTO ERN PB WITH LEAD SHRTWV TROF/S TUES/WED(?)...AS GFS/ECMWF DISAGREE ON POSITION OF MID/UPPER TROF. BY THUR MODELS SEEM TO CATCH UP TO ONE ANOTHER AND MOVE TROF E. COLD FRONT TRIES TO PUSH INTO REGION IN WAKE OF UPPER TROF BUT WILL KEEP IT DRY FOR NOW THRU/FRI. PERIODS OF OVERNIGHT LOW CLOUDS MOST MORNINGS WITH SLY WINDS...AND COOLING WED-FRI PER LOWERING THCK WITH PASSING TROF. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 64 90 64 84 / 0 0 0 20 CARLSBAD NM 61 94 64 90 / 10 10 0 10 DRYDEN TX 65 86 67 87 / 20 0 0 20 FORT STOCKTON TX 66 91 67 88 / 10 0 0 20 GUADALUPE PASS TX 61 90 62 83 / 10 10 0 10 HOBBS NM 60 91 61 87 / 0 0 0 20 MARFA TX 54 86 54 84 / 10 10 0 20 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 64 88 65 84 / 0 0 0 20 ODESSA TX 63 87 65 85 / 0 0 0 20 WINK TX 67 90 64 93 / 10 0 0 20 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 243 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 2004 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-080200- 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- 243 PM CDT (143 PM MDT) FRI MAY 7 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY FROM THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS SOUTH THROUGH THE BIG BEND AND LOWER TRANS PECOS REGIONS TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO GENERALLY REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...VERY STRONG LOCAL WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVITION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 310 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 2004 TXZ057-074-075-080-081-080100- BIG BEND AREA-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-MARFA PLATEAU-PECOS- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- 310 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL OF LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS PECOS...BREWSTER...PRESIDIO...AND CULBERSON COUNTIES... THE LAYER OF AIR NEAR THE GROUND CONTINUES TO BE VERY DRY. AGAIN TODAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF WEST TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THIS ENVIRONMENT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. PERSONS FROM FORT DAVIS...TO MARFA...TO ALPINE...TO MARATHON SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MONITOR TV... RADIO...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LINDLEY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
An isolated severe thunderstorm produced dime to quarter size hail at Heath Canyon.
An isolated low precipitation supercell developed along a retreating dryline during the early evening of the 7th. This storm produced quarter size hail on the south side of Lamesa along Highway 349. The storm slowly propagated west-southwest, and produced large hail at least one inch in diameter along its path. A storm spotter that followed the storm reported pea to quarter size hail on the ground at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 2052 and 829 about forty-five minutes after the storm passed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2004
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: 5393970, 5393969.