One severe storm, with damaging winds and quarter size hail, developed along an instability axis during the evening hours, as a weak mid-level inverted shortwave trough passed overhead.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
One severe storm, with damaging winds and quarter size hail, developed along an instability axis during the evening hours, as a weak mid-level inverted shortwave trough passed overhead.
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 19, 5:47 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 647 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE MOISTURE CONTINUED TO STREAM INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS A GENERALLY SOUTHEAST FLOW CONTINUED. A WEAKLY DEFINED SURFACE TROUGH FROM NEAR KINK TO WEST OF KFST AT 23Z WAS PROVIDING ENOUGH CONVERGENCE TO FIRE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY AND WEAK UPPER DIVERGENCE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH EARLY EVENING NEAR THIS SURFACE TROUGH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING NEAR THE MOUNTAINS. WITH LOSS OF HEATING...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DECREASE AROUND MID EVENING. && .AVIATION... ONLY THE KINK 00Z TAF INDICATES A PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID EVENING THOUGH AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY AT KCNM...KPEQ AND KFST. THE PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE AT THESE LOCATIONS IS TOO LOW TO INCLUDE IN 00Z TAFS. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG A SURFACE TROUGH NEAR KINK ARE EXPECTED TO TEMPORARILY AFFECT KINK BETWEEN 00Z AND 02Z. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE BY 3Z WITH MOST ACTIVITY ACROSS THE AREA WINDING DOWN BY 6Z. WHERE THUNDERSTORMS DO OCCUR... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... VISIBILITIES TO 3 MILES AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS TO 25 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE. CEILINGS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE 3000 FEET AT AREA TERMINALS. ASIDE FROM ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL REMAIN GENERALLY SOUTHEASTERLY AT 10 TO 15 KNOTS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 112 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-201815- 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- 112 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010 /1212 PM MDT SAT JUN 19 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND HAIL. STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 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 728 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010 TXZ058>060-067-200100- WINKLER-LOVING-WARD-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- 728 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AFFECTING CENTRAL WARD...EAST CENTRAL REEVES...SOUTHEASTERN LOVING AND WESTERN WINKLER COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 726 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINK. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 8 MILES EAST OF BARSTOW...AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PECOS. MOVEMENT IS NORTH AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER YOU CAN BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION. &&
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:32 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
This gust was measured by a Weather Underground weather station.
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