A couple of disturbances moved over the region. There was good wind shear and instability across the area.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
A couple of disturbances moved over the region. There was good wind shear and instability across the area. These conditions contributed to thunderstorms that produced strong winds across West Texas.
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 7, 11:19 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 1219 AM CDT Thu Jun 8 2017 .DISCUSSION... See 06z aviation discussion below. && .AVIATION... A line of TS is currently moving through CNM, and will be out of the TAF vicinity within the next hour or two. TS should dissipate before reaching any other TAF sites. VFR conditions and generally southeast winds are otherwise expected. Hennig && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 233 PM CDT Wed Jun 7 2017/ DISCUSSION... Another round of thunderstorms is expected to develop across southeast New Mexico and west Texas tonight due to another couplet of disturbances in the north to northwest flow rolling out of New Mexico into west Texas by sunrise. It appears a significant amount of the convection will begin later than last evening due to the atmosphere being in recovery mode. Thunderstorms should translate into southeast New Mexico later this evening and track overnight into the upper Trans Pecos, Davis Mountains and eventually the Permian Basin. Precipitation will have a better chance of moving further southeast than last night due to the development of a modest southeasterly low level jet developing across the Rio Grande Valley and Permian Basin. A few strong to isolated severe storms and locally heavy rainfall is expected across southeast New Mexico where the better shear and instability will reside. Best chance of thunderstorms will shift south and east into the lower Trans Pecos and Davis Mountains during Thursday as the aforementioned disturbances continue to track southeast into those locations. A few strong to severe storms can be expected with shear approaching 30 knots and capes in excess of 1000 j/kg. Another upper level disturbance in the northerly flow aloft will kick off more precipitation Thursday night across southeast New Mexico and the western half of west Texas. This disturbance is forecast to weaken and move southeast through the remainder of west Texas Friday with a slight chance of thunderstorms from the southeast Permian Basin to the lower Trans Pecos and Big Bend. Precipitation chances should be on the decrease this weekend as an upper level ridge to the west builds into the area. There could be a stray storm or two Saturday with widely scattered storms Sunday in west Texas due to very intense heating and mid level moisture along the dryline. Southwesterly flow aloft is expected to develop next Monday through Wednesday with dryline thunderstorms possible each afternoon and evening along and east of a dryline in intense heating in west Texas. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Big Spring 70 98 71 98 / 10 10 10 10 Carlsbad 68 102 68 102 / 20 10 10 0 Dryden 71 101 71 97 / 10 20 10 0 Fort Stockton 70 98 71 101 / 10 20 10 10 Guadalupe Pass 66 94 67 93 / 30 10 10 10 Hobbs 65 98 67 100 / 20 10 10 10 Marfa 60 91 59 94 / 30 30 20 20 Midland Intl Airport 70 98 72 99 / 10 10 10 10 Odessa 70 97 71 99 / 10 10 10 10 Wink 69 101 70 104 / 20 10 10 0 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...None. TX...None. && 99/99/10
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 146 PM CDT Wed Jun 7 2017 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-081900- 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- 146 PM CDT Wed Jun 7 2017 /1246 PM MDT Wed Jun 7 2017/ This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of southeast New Mexico, southwest Texas and western Texas. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A few strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible into late tonight mainly from Southeast New Mexico and the northwestern Permian Basin, possibly down into the Upper Trans Pecos and Davis Mountains. The main concerns will be large hail, damaging wind, and locally heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY Widespread hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be necessary across Southeast New Mexico and the northwestern Permian Basin this afternoon. 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... http://weather.gov/midland
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 701 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2017 TXZ046-047-051-052-080100- Martin TX-Dawson TX-Howard TX-Borden TX- 701 PM CDT WED JUN 7 2017 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BORDEN...NORTHERN HOWARD... NORTHEASTERN MARTIN AND DAWSON COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT... At 700 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms 9 miles east of O'donnell, or 17 miles northwest of Gail, moving south at 20 mph. Dime size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Lamesa, Ackerly, Gail, O'donnell, Los Ybanez, Sparenberg, Flower Grove, Patricia, Hancock, Lamesa Municipal Airport, Welch, Vealmoor, Mesquite, Vincent, Punkin Center, Arvana, Union, Friendship, Tenmile and Pride. LAT...LON 3245 10204 3296 10214 3296 10133 3246 10119 TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 342DEG 18KT 3292 10168 82
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 179 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:50 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm moved across Culberson County and produced a 59 mph wind gust at the Pine Springs mesonet site.
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