There was an upper low centered over northern Mexico which was bringing in moisture into southern Texas. An upper level disturbance moved over southwest Texas which increased lift over the area.
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There was an upper low centered over northern Mexico which was bringing in moisture into southern Texas. An upper level disturbance moved over southwest Texas which increased lift over the area. These conditions combined to develop thunderstorms which produced a tropical funnel.
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 Jul 11, 5:14 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 614 PM CDT Fri Jul 11 2014 .DISCUSSION... See aviation discussion below. && .AVIATION... VFR conditions are expected the next 24 hours. Upper level disturbance across the Big Bend will drift westward through the period resulting in an abundance of mid and high clouds with isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms expected across west Texas. Areal coverage of precipitation expected was not high enough to include at any of the terminals at this time. will continue to monitor. There may also be a brief period of MVFR ceilings at a few of the terminals shortly after 12z Saturday but confidence was not high enough to mention at this time. 12 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 245 PM CDT Fri Jul 11 2014/ DISCUSSION... WV imagery shows an inverted upper trough centered over western Coahuila, and extending northward into West Texas and flattening a ridge over SW KS. Trough has been meandering W-NW, w/area radars showing some SHRA creeping into Terrell County over the past few hours. MPE suggests over 2" of rain fell in some places E-SE of KDRT overnight, but this activity has diminished significantly over the past few hours. Thus, we've scaled back POPs somewhat this afternoon, and down to isolated this evening w/no diurnal heating to assist. Upper trough is forecast to keep drifting slowly west Saturday, and light easterly upslope flow will put best chances of redevelopment over the Davis Mtns and SW zones. Sunday, the trough continues moving west, and the upper ridge retreats to NW of the Four Corners. W/loss of the trough, temps will begin warming, but this will be partially offset by the retreating ridge as well. Position of the ridge will open up an area of diffluence aloft, combined w/shortwaves moving south thru the east side of the ridge, for a chance of convection Sunday night/Monday over SE NM. Tuesday, a cold front is forecast to move into the area, bringing temps back down around normal, and keeping the northern half of the FA in play for a chance of rain. Models keep this boundary over the northern zones thru midweek, before bringing a reinforcing upper trough thru the area Wednesday night/Thursday, spreading chances of convection further south. Models then diverge on solutions by the weekend, so we didn't change much of what's already in the grids after Thursday due to uncertainty. Upshot is, after temps peak Wednesday, the upper trough should keep things closer to normal into the weekend. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ANDREWS TX 69 92 67 94 / 10 10 10 10 BIG SPRING TX 68 93 67 95 / 10 10 10 10 CARLSBAD NM 68 90 68 93 / 10 10 10 10 DRYDEN TX 70 93 69 94 / 10 10 10 10 FORT STOCKTON TX 69 90 67 95 / 10 10 10 10 GUADALUPE PASS TX 65 82 67 85 / 10 10 10 10 HOBBS NM 67 88 65 93 / 10 10 10 10 MARFA TX 61 79 59 84 / 10 30 10 10 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 68 93 66 95 / 10 10 10 10 ODESSA TX 67 92 69 94 / 10 10 10 10 WINK TX 69 92 67 97 / 10 10 10 10 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 67/44
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 215 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2014 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-121915- 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- 215 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2014 /115 PM MDT FRI JUL 11 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE BASIN AND THE LOWER TRANS PECOS. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 55 MPH...BRIEF MODERATE RAINFALL AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW...HOWEVER ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS THE TRANS PECOS AND WESTERN BASIN. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS TO 55 MPH...BRIEF MODERATE RAINFALL AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES. .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 Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:15 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced a brief tropical funnel near Stanton. No damage was reported.
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