S. coast.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
There was a subtropical ridge centered both over the Great Basin and the southeast U.S. coast. Intense surface heating was present across West Texas under a weak upper high pressure system. Outflow boundaries from storms the night before were present across the area and helped to serve as a focus for thunderstorms. The storms that developed produced strong wind gusts.
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 26, 1:44 PM CST, 3 hours earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 244 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 .DISCUSSION...As of 2:30 PM CDT Tuesday...KMAF radar is showing isolated/scattered thunderstorms developing over the CWA moving generally south. Outflow boundaries from last nights convection in the Panhandle and Northeast New Mexico Plains is helping serve as a focus. This will be the theme for the next few days. Water Vapor Imagery and High Density Winds shows that the subtropical ridge is basically split in two...with one center over the Great Basin and the other center over the Southeast US Coast. There is a weak inverted trof over East TX basically trapped between the two ridge centers. In this scenario...which shows little change thru at least Thursday night...there will be isolated/scattered thunderstorms across the CWA. The highest probability will be in the higher terrain with upslope flow and intense heating. But have widespread isolated pops everywhere else due to boundaries which won't mix out in the nearly homogeneous atmosphere and are notoriously hard to predict. Temperatures will be near to a degree or two above normal. Starting Friday and continuing into early next week the ridge center over the Great basin will build east thru the Southern Plains with the deep layer flow becoming east to northeast. With the deep layer east to northeast flow there will be good upslope flow...mainly in the Guadalupe and Sacramento Mtns where the best chance of convection will be. High temps will once again be above normal (the theme for July, 2016!) with temps approaching 100 in the Permian Basin and 100-105 in the Pecos and Rio Grande River Valleys. Strobin && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Big Spring 78 97 77 95 / 20 10 20 10 Carlsbad 76 98 74 97 / 20 20 20 20 Dryden 78 97 77 97 / 20 20 20 10 Fort Stockton 76 94 73 96 / 20 10 10 10 Guadalupe Pass 70 88 70 87 / 30 20 20 20 Hobbs 72 95 71 93 / 20 20 20 10 Marfa 68 88 65 88 / 30 20 20 20 Midland Intl Airport 76 97 75 95 / 20 10 10 10 Odessa 76 96 76 95 / 20 10 10 10 Wink 77 98 76 97 / 20 10 10 10 && .MAF Watches/Warnings/Advisories... NM...None. TX...None. && 12/33
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 207 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-271915- 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- 207 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 /107 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH, LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...MAINLY SOUTH AND WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER IN WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS, LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .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 350 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 NMZ028-262215- EDDY COUNTY PLAINS NM- 350 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM MDT... AT 349 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKEWOOD...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF ARTESIA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LAKEWOOD AREA INCLUDING HIGHWAY 285.. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3239 10444 3256 10464 3272 10435 3251 10407 TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 039DEG 9KT 3262 10436 49
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 509 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 TXZ050-061-062-262245- ANDREWS TX-ECTOR TX-MIDLAND TX- 509 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ANDREWS...WEST CENTRAL MIDLAND AND NORTHEASTERN ECTOR COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM CDT... AT 507 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ODESSA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH, SMALL HAIL, AND HEAVY RAIN WILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ODESSA...WEST ODESSA...GOLDSMITH... MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIR AND SPACE PORT... ODESSA SCHELEMEYER FIELD...MISSION DORADO... WARFIELD AND NORTH COWDEN. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 112 AND 113...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 117 AND 129. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3206 10263 3215 10240 3187 10212 3177 10265 TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 357DEG 12KT 3198 10246 49
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
541 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016
TXZ082-262330-
TERRELL TX-
541 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN TERRELL COUNTY UNTIL 630
PM CDT...
AT 540 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
DRYDEN...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
SMALL HAIL, WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH, AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DRYDEN AND TERRELL COUNTY AIRPORT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 2983 10218 2985 10219 2984 10220 2985 10224
2986 10225 2985 10226 3004 10251 3021 10225
3006 10180 2980 10214
TIME...MOT...LOC 2240Z 056DEG 26KT 3009 10215
49The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 198 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:44 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm moved across Terrell County and produced a 58 mph wind gust at Dryden.
A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced a 60 mph wind gust near Tarzan.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2016
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 650404, 650407.