Adequate atmospheric instability, ample low level moisture, and an upper level disturbance moving from Mexico into west Texas, combined to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms over the Trans Pecos Region.
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Adequate atmospheric instability, ample low level moisture, and an upper level disturbance moving from Mexico into west Texas, combined to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms over the Trans Pecos Region.
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 Sep 24, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 250 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 .DISCUSSION... TRACK OF A MCV ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN WITH A SURFACE TROUGH LYING JUST EAST OF THE WEST TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER FAVOR HIGHEST POPS MAINLY THIS EVENING IN WEST TEXAS...THOUGH WILL NOT RULE OUT SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WITH CUMULUS CLOUDS BUBBLING UP BEHIND THE SURFACE TROUGH AND WAVE IN SOME INSTABILITY. NOT EXPECTING SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY DUE TO SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THIS WAVE. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS THE ROCKIES WILL WEAKEN AND LIFT INTO THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY ALLOWING A FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS TO SINK SOUTHWARD INTO THE REGION TUESDAY. A BAND OF INSTABILITY AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT WILL DEVELOP ALONG WITH DAYTIME HEATING FAVORS WEST TEXAS AGAIN WITH BEST CHANCE OF STORMS DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. WITH THE FRONT CONTINUING TO SAG SOUTH TUESDAY NIGHT AND LOSS OF HEATING PRECIPITATION CHANCES SHOULD DECREASE AND BE CONFINED TO THE MOUNTAINS. WILL KEEP THE ISOLATE POPS IN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS ANOTHER NORTHERN STREAM FRONT ATTEMPTS TO MOVE IN THE AREA WITH RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE DESPITE UPPER RIDGE WITH GUIDANCE INSISTING ON SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATION. FRIDAY COULD BE THE QUIETEST DAY AS A SURFACE HIGH WILL BE IN CONTROL WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. WILL ADD ISOLATED POPS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING NEAR THE WEST TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER WITH A SURFACE LEE TROUGH FORMING IN THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. WILL ADD ISOLATED POPS FOR NOW ACROSS THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND THE LOWER TRANS PECOS SUNDAY AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION. THE FRONTS THIS WEEK WILL HAVE MINOR IMPACT AT BEST ON TEMPERATURES WITH ABOVE NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURES CONTINUING AND SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 66 88 65 85 / 20 20 10 10 CARLSBAD NM 60 88 59 88 / 10 10 0 10 DRYDEN TX 69 92 67 91 / 20 20 10 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 68 89 66 88 / 20 20 0 10 GUADALUPE PASS TX 59 83 63 81 / 10 10 10 10 HOBBS NM 63 88 62 87 / 20 10 0 10 MARFA TX 52 81 54 82 / 20 20 10 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 65 88 64 87 / 20 20 0 10 ODESSA TX 67 89 65 87 / 20 20 0 10 WINK TX 68 94 67 93 / 20 10 0 10 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 12
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1207 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-251715- 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- 1207 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 /1107 AM MDT MON SEP 24 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS EASTWARD ACROSS THE STOCKTON PLATEAU. MORE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE REST OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING...HOWEVER A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OVER 50 MPH...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 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
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 420 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 TXZ075-242215- PECOS- 420 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAKERSFIELD AT 420 PM CDT...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 545 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 TXZ075-242345- PECOS- 545 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY AT 545 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 385 13 MILES NORTH OF THE PECOS AND BREWSTER COUNTY LINE. WINDS TO 55 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 735 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 TXZ075-250130- PECOS- 735 PM CDT MON SEP 24 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR WESTERN PECOS COUNTY. AT 735 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELDING ALONG AND NEAR INTERSTATE 10 NEAR MILE MARKER 233. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 285 WEST OF 1776 AROUND 8 PM. WINDS TO AROUND 55 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
State prison officals reported winds of at least 60 mph. No damage was reported.
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