High winds occurred across the higher elevations of the Davis Mountains.
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.
High winds occurred across the higher elevations of the Davis Mountains.
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 Dec 30, 10:39 PM CST, 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1039 PM CST SUN DEC 30 2007 .AVIATION... CAVU CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST ACROSS ALL AREA TERMINALS THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS EARLY MONDAY MORNING...AND IS EXPECTED TO PASS OVER AREA TERMINALS BETWEEN 15Z AND 18Z MONDAY. A WIND SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND AN INCREASE OF WINDS TO AROUND 12 KNOTS WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 18 KNOTS ARE FORECAST FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION...BECOMING LIGHT AND VARIABLE AFTER SUNSET. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 70
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 241 PM CST SUN DEC 30 2007 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-312045- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 241 PM CST SUN DEC 30 2007 /141 PM MST SUN DEC 30 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A peak gust of 71 mph gust was measured at McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains, late Sunday night. High winds continued into the early morning hours on Monday.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, December 2007
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: 72766.