The westward moving remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly coming out of central Texas and the presence of a surface low pressure trough located from central Texas into the Texas Permian Basin, resulted in the development of thunderstorms primarily along and south of Interstate 20. With abundant amounts of moisture in the mid levels of the atmosphere and drier conditions at the surface, developing…
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The westward moving remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly coming out of central Texas and the presence of a surface low pressure trough located from central Texas into the Texas Permian Basin, resulted in the development of thunderstorms primarily along and south of Interstate 20. With abundant amounts of moisture in the mid levels of the atmosphere and drier conditions at the surface, developing thunderstorms had the potential to produce strong to severe outflow winds.
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 Aug 1, 1:37 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 237 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008 .DISCUSSION... AN APPARENT REMNANT VORTICITY MAX OF TROPICAL SYSTEM DOLLY WAS TRANSLATING WESTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS WAVE ALONG A SURFACE TROUGH/LOW LEVEL CONVERGENT ZONE THAT EXTENDED FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. EXPECT STORMS TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS DAYTIME HEATING AND DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 60S HAVE COMBINED TO YIELD SBCAPES IN THE VICINITY OF 1000 TO 2000 J/KG. SINCE 0 TO 6 KM BULK SHEAR VECTORS WERE 25KT AT BEST...ANY SEVERE STORM THREAT WILL PROBABLY BE LIMITED. HOWEVER...A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH CONSIDERING INVERTED V FORECAST SOUNDINGS OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER TRANS PECOS. HAVE INCREASED THE POPS FOR TONIGHT FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN WESTWARD ACROSS THE STOCKTON PLATEAU AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS AS CONVECTION WILL LIKELY PERSIST WITHIN MOIST UNSTABLE REGIME...AND A MODEST LOW LEVEL JET IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES WILL EXPAND EASTWARD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS SATURDAY...THEN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY BY SUNDAY. THE WAVE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON WILL PASS ON THE THE WEST...BUT NOT BEFORE AIDING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN SATURDAY. THE PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER RIDGE THEN WILL LIKELY BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO FOREGO ANY CONVECTION ACROSS THE CWA SUNDAY AND MONDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL BE LESS HOT SATURDAY DUE TO THE LOWER HEIGHTS...THICKNESSES AND SLIGHTLY COOLER H85 TEMPS BUT WILL REBOUND SUNDAY AND MONDAY TO ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS. MODELS ARE THEN IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THE UPPER RIDGE WILL WEAKEN OVER THE SOUTHERN CONUS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...BESET BY AN UPPER TROUGH TRANSLATING EASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS...AND AN INVERTED UPPER TROUGH HEADING WEST AROUND THE SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF SAID RIDGE. THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL BY MID NEXT WEEK. RAIN CHANCES WILL GET BETTER TOO...BUT DIFFERENCES WITH THE TIMING...STRENGTH AND OVERALL POSITION OF THIS FEATURE WILL PREVENT ADDING ANYTHING MORE THAN SOME SLIGHT CHANCES FOR NOW. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 71 96 73 100 / 30 0 0 0 CARLSBAD NM 69 93 69 95 / 10 10 10 10 DRYDEN TX 72 94 72 96 / 20 10 0 0 FORT STOCKTON TX 70 93 71 96 / 30 10 10 0 GUADALUPE PASS TX 68 83 68 86 / 10 20 20 10 HOBBS NM 69 92 68 94 / 10 0 10 0 MARFA TX 60 87 58 89 / 30 20 20 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 72 95 72 99 / 30 0 0 0 ODESSA TX 73 94 71 99 / 30 0 0 0 WINK TX 73 98 73 102 / 20 10 10 0 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 13/67
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1237 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-021745- 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- 1237 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008 /1137 AM MDT FRI AUG 1 2008/ 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 EVENING FROM THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN THROUGH THE BIG BEND AREA. THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE POTENTIALLY HIGH WINDS OF AROUND 50 MPH...AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS SATURDAY. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN FALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... 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
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:16 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe winds broke one and a half inch diameter branches off of several trees and downed a thirty foot pine tree.
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