Scattered severe thunderstorms affected portions of west Texas during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 5th. This activity developed south of a weak frontal boundary and dryline triple point that was located over the northwestern Permian Basin.
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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 episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Scattered severe thunderstorms affected portions of west Texas during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 5th. This activity developed south of a weak frontal boundary and dryline triple point that was located over the northwestern Permian Basin. Thunderstorms from the northwest basin southward to the Big Bend produced large hail and damaging winds. No significant damage was reported.Meanwhile, a complex of supercell thunderstorms over the northeastern Permian Basin became tornadic as they interacted with the frontal boundary.
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 5, 3:44 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 444 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 .UPDATE... WILL SEND AN UPDATE SHORTLY TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 408...WHICH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 210 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005/ SHORT TERM... UPPER TROUGH CENTERED WEST OF THE AREA WILL KEEP REGION UNSETTLED AS FAR AS STORM DEVELOPMENT. MODELS PICK UP ON A NUMBER OF WEAK SHORTWAVES AND WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT CAN EXPECT A FEW IMPULSES TO TRACK ACROSS THE AREA. AT THE SURFACE A WEAK COLD FRONT THAT ENTERED THE AREA THIS MORNING HAS BEGUN RETREATING. BASED ON SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AND SATELLITE BELIEVE FRONT LOCATED JUST NORTH OF CWA ACROSS SOUTH PLAINS AND SLOWLY DRIFTING NORTHWARD. FRONT MAY BECOME FOCUS FOR CONVECTION LATER TODAY. SPC FOCUSING ON STRONG HEATING... PLENTIFUL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE... AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A SLIGHT RISK HAS BEEN SHIFTED NORTHWARD AND NOW JUST TOUCHES THE NORTHERN BOUNDARIES OF THE CWA. AS OF 1 PM THE DRYLINE STILL LOCATED WEST OF A HOBBS TO PECOS LINE. MODELS DO NOT BRING DRYLINE EAST OF LEA COUNTY AND QUICKLY MOVE IT BACK WEST AGAINST THE MOUNTAINS OVERNIGHT. MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW 3-4000 JOULES EAST OF THE DRYLINE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT WITH HIGH NEGATIVE LIFTED INDEX VALUES. HAVE INHERITED MENTION OF SEVERE STORMS NORTHEAST AND WILL LEAVE IN ZONES/GRIDS EVEN THOUGH SLIGHT RISK NO LONGER COVERS THAT AREA. MODELS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP MCS OVERNIGHT BUT DISAGREE ON LOCATION... AVN HAS IT TRACKING EAST OF AREA... WHILE ETA DEVELOPS HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN CWA. CURRENTLY LEANING TOWARD HEAVY RAIN BEING TO THE EAST BUT HAVE EXTENDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE NORTH JUST IN CASE. HAVE ALSO PUSHED ISOLATED POPS BACK TO NEAR A CARLSBAD TO MARFA LINE BASED ON SLOW PROGRESSION OF DRYLINE AND DEVELOPING CU FIELD ACROSS BIG BEND. LONG TERM... SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WITH WESTERN TROUGHING WILL PREVAIL THIS WEEK. BEST AREAL COVERAGE FOR CONVECTION THROUGH WEDNESDAY APPEARS TO BE MONDAY AS A SHORTWAVE TRANSLATES ACROSS THE REGION AND BACKS THE FLOW THROUGH THE COLUMN. BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY THE DRYLINE WILL MIX FURTHER EAST EACH DAY WITH CORRESPONDING POPS SHIFTING EASTWARD AND CONFINED TO THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN BY WEDNESDAY AS THE MID LEVEL FLOW VEERS SOME. BY THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE FLOW BACKS AGAIN ALOFT WITH MOISTURE SHIFTING WESTWARD AGAIN. STILL SOME DIFFERENCES IN THE MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE PERTAINING TO THE EVOLVING WESTERN TROUGH...OVERALL KEPT THE 10-20 POPS AT THIS TIME EXCEPT THE FAR WEST WITH THE DRYLINE. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 152 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-061852- 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- 152 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005 (1252 PM MDT SUN JUN 5 2005) THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THE HIGHEST CHANCE OF STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PERMIAN BASIN. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS... ALTHOUGH LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS ANTICIPATED EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING THIS WEEK. ALTHOUGH A WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER EVENT IS NOT CURRENTLY ANTICIPATED... A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS EAST OF A CARLSBAD TO MARFA LINE... ESPECIALLY THOSE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PERMIAN BASIN... SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE) HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
9 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
National Park Service rangers reported damaging thunderstorm winds that downed a large tree in Rio Grande Village, in the eastern part of Big Bend National Park. The severe winds were followed by large hail.
Park rangers also reported that hail up to the size of golfballs accompanied the storm along the Rio Grande from near Rio Grande Village to Heath Canyon. The large hail generally remained over open rangeland in the eastern parts of the Big Bend National Park. No damage resulted.
A severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Pyote.
Several reports were received of nickel to quarter size hail as a severe storm tracked south of Alpine.
Nickel size hail was reported along Texas Highway 302 east of Kermit.
National Park Service rangers reported nickel size hail at the entrance to Big Bend National Park at Persimmon Gap. The hail persisted for twenty minutes.
A second thunderstorm affected areas along Texas Highway 302 west of Kermit. This storm also produced nickel size hail.
Motorists traveling along U.S. Highway 90 reported nickel size hail just west of Paisano Pass in far northeastern Presidio County.
Motorists reported nickel size hail along Texas Highway 118 south of Alpine.
Local emergency management officials reported quarter size hail along U.S. Highway 385 south of Seagraves.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2005
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: 5457294, 5457293, 5457295, 5457296, 5457298, 5457297, 5457299, 5457300, 5457301, 5457302.