Scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening along a weak frontal boundary located over the Permian Basin. Additional thunderstorm development occurred in southwest Texas in areas of favorable upslope low level flow and abundant low level moisture.
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Scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening along a weak frontal boundary located over the Permian Basin. Additional thunderstorm development occurred in southwest Texas in areas of favorable upslope low level flow and abundant low level moisture. A couple of these storms were able to reach severe thresholds.
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 11, 1:39 PM CST, 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 239 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 .DISCUSSION... LATE AFTERNOON SURFACE OBSERVATIONS ALONG WITH AREA RADARS SHOW THE REMNANT FRONTAL BOUNDARY ORIENTED FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST FROM THE CENTRAL PERMIAN BASIN INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...SOUTH OF SAN ANGELO. WE EXPECT THIS BOUNDARY TO ACT AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT GIVEN WEAKER MID AND UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT VS. YESTERDAY...POPS FOR THIS EVENING WILL BE LOWER. HOWEVER...WE HAVE OPTED TO INCREASE POPS SLIGHTLY FOR THE EVENING PERIOD AS THE SHORT RANGE MODELS AGREE THERE WILL BE SOME CONVECTION AROUND. AS CONVECTION FORMS...LOW-LEVEL COLD POOLS SHOULD HELP TO PUSH THE BOUNDARY SOUTHWARD...THUS WE WILL REDUCE POPS AFTER 06Z TONIGHT FOR AREAS NORTH OF A GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO MIDLAND LINE. WE WILL OPT TO KEEP A 20-30% CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST AFTER MIDNIGHT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN CONCERN GIVEN WEAK WINDS ALOFT AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE (1.8 INCHES OF PWAT ON KMAF 12Z SOUNDING). WE WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION THIS IN THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. FOR TUESDAY...MOST AREAS SHOULD REMAIN DRY...EXCEPT FOR THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND BIG BEND REGION WHERE OROGRAPHICS WILL AID IN ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE OTHER REGION THAT MAY SEE ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL BE ACROSS NORTHERN LEA COUNTY...WHERE STEEPER MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND LOW-LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW COULD ALLOW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION CONTINUES TO REMAIN OUT WEST ON WEDNESDAY... NAMELY ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...CULBERSON COUNTY...DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND BIG BEND REGION. AGAIN...FAVORED LAPSE RATES AND WEAK LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG A SURFACE TROUGH WILL AID IN AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION. A SIMILAR SETUP IS IN STORE FOR THURSDAY AS NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT MAY BRING SOME MID AND UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT INTO THE REGION. FOR NOW...WILL KEEP POPS CONFINED TO THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS. LATER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO MONITOR FOR SPREADING POPS EAST INTO THE PLAINS. THE WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO BECOME INCREASINGLY ACTIVE LATE THIS WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND AS THE MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE AGREE A MID AND UPPER LEVEL CLOSED LOW WILL MOVE OUT OF SOUTHERN CANADA INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS BY EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. TIMING DIFFERENCES DO ARISE WITH THIS LOW AND A COLD FRONT...SO FURTHER REFINEMENTS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TO THE FORECAST. FOR NOW...WE WILL INCREASE RAIN CHANCES SLIGHTLY BEGINNING LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST... THE HIGHER RAIN CHANCES WILL DEPEND LARGELY ON THE POSITION OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND HOW ACTIVE THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BECOMES. COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE ALSO EXPECTED LATE IN THE PERIOD AS 850MB TEMPERATURES TREND DOWNWARD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 69 94 70 96 / 20 10 0 0 CARLSBAD NM 69 97 70 97 / 20 10 20 20 DRYDEN TX 73 97 74 99 / 30 10 0 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 71 95 73 96 / 20 10 10 10 GUADALUPE PASS TX 66 88 67 89 / 30 10 20 20 HOBBS NM 68 93 69 94 / 20 10 10 10 MARFA TX 61 89 59 91 / 30 20 10 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 70 94 70 96 / 20 0 10 0 ODESSA TX 70 95 71 96 / 20 0 10 0 WINK TX 71 99 74 100 / 20 0 10 10 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 12/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 131 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-121100- 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- 131 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 /1231 PM MDT MON AUG 11 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MOST PERSISTENT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE ACROSS THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND THE BIG BEND REGION. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .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 252 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 TXZ074-081-112015- BIG BEND AREA-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- 252 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER HIGHWAY 385...7 MILES NORTH OF MARATHON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 252 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 TXZ074-081-112015- BIG BEND AREA-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- 252 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER HIGHWAY 385...7 MILES NORTH OF MARATHON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL...WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN THESE STORMS. SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 248 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:56 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Marfa Automated Surface Observing System measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph. No damage was reported.
Odessa Automated Surface Observing Sytem measured a wind gust of 69 mph. No damage was reported.
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