A weak cold front draped across the region provided a focus for thunderstorm development during the afternoon and evening hours. An isolated severe wind gust was observed with one of the stronger thunderstorms.
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A weak cold front draped across the region provided a focus for thunderstorm development during the afternoon and evening hours. An isolated severe wind gust was observed with one of the stronger thunderstorms.
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 25, 2:09 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 309 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011 .DISCUSSION... THE 25/12Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND FAR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH WAS ALSO LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE COLD FRONT...ROUGHLY ALONG A WICHITA FALLS TO LAMESA LINE. WE DO EXPECT SOME CONVECTION TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE ABOVE MENTIONED SURFACE TROUGH WILL AID IN CONVECTION DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. EASTERLY FLOW IN THE LOW-LEVELS WILL ALSO AID OROGRAPHIC LIFT ACROSS THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...RESULTING IN A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. FINALLY...ONGOING CONVECTION ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS COULD SEND AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING...POSSIBLY RESULTING IN A LITTLE BETTER CHANCE FOR CONVECTION ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER TRANS PECOS. OVERALL...THE CURRENT FORECAST IS IN GOOD SHAPE AND GENERALLY MINOR CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE. WE DID OPT TO INCREASE RAIN CHANCES ACROSS NORTHERN EDDY AND LEA COUNTIES AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS...GIVEN GOOD AGREEMENT AMONG THE RUC13...NAM12 AND THE 4KM WRF/NMM. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MOST ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ON THE DECREASE WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...HOWEVER WE DID KEEP A MENTION OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THROUGH TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MAY EASE INTO THAT REGION. ON FRIDAY...THE COLD FRONT WILL WEAKEN AND LIKELY BECOME DIFFUSE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW IN THE LOW-LEVELS REMAINS IN PLACE...SO WE COULD SEE SOME CONVECTION ACROSS THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THE THE ADJACENT PLAINS OF WESTERN EDDY COUNTY. THE SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE RELUCTANT TO DEVELOP PRECIPITATION NEAR THE ABOVE MENTIONED FRONT. FOR NOW...WE WILL KEEP A DRY FORECAST...BUT DID OPT TO INCREASE GRIDDED POPS SLIGHTLY. CONTINUED HOT CONDITIONS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY WITH TEMPERATURES ROUGHLY 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. HOT AND DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND...WITH TEMPERATURES LIKELY TO BE HOTTEST ON SUNDAY. A SLIGHT DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT TO SURFACE WINDS WILL AID IN THE WARM UP WITH ALL AREAS RUNNING ROUGHLY 10 TO 15 DEGREES ABOVE CLIMATOLOGICAL VALUES. EARLY NEXT WEEK...IT DOES APPEAR THE PERSISTENT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL SHIFT WEST...BRINGING WEAK NORTHERLY FLOW IN THE MID LEVELS TO THE REGION. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN U.S. PLAINS...BUT JUST HOW FAR THIS FRONT MOVES IS STILL UNCLEAR. WE DID DECREASE TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT ABOVE NORMAL WARMTH IS STILL EXPECTED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 75 102 74 103 / 20 10 0 0 CARLSBAD NM 70 101 70 103 / 20 10 10 0 DRYDEN TX 76 102 75 104 / 20 0 0 0 FORT STOCKTON TX 74 99 74 101 / 20 10 0 0 GUADALUPE PASS TX 70 92 70 93 / 20 10 10 10 HOBBS NM 71 100 70 101 / 20 10 0 0 MARFA TX 62 90 61 93 / 20 10 10 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 74 101 72 102 / 20 10 0 0 ODESSA TX 74 101 73 102 / 20 10 0 0 WINK TX 74 102 73 104 / 20 10 0 0 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 12/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 140 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-261200- 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- 140 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2011 /1240 PM MDT THU AUG 25 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS MAINLY THIS EVENING. THE STRONGER STORMS COULD GENERATE GUSTY WINDS OVER 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY 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
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Power poles and trees were blown down. The tree sizes and number of power poles/trees were unknown. Power outages were also reported just west of Colorado City, TX. The property damage for this event was estimated.
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