The last day of an anomalous stretch of late-season severe weather across portions of the southwestern Great Plains. As a large tough continued to approach the region, strong shear, and rich low-level moisture aided in the development of numerous supercells across portions of the Permian Basin and Trans Pecos.
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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.
The last day of an anomalous stretch of late-season severe weather across portions of the southwestern Great Plains. As a large tough continued to approach the region, strong shear, and rich low-level moisture aided in the development of numerous supercells across portions of the Permian Basin and Trans Pecos. Of note are supercells that impacted the Odessa and Fort Stockton areas with large hail.
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 Oct 4, 5:12 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:37 UTC.
10 hail, 4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Scurry County Emergency Manager reports Deep Creek out of its banks in Snyder leading to road closures. This flooding is a result of heavy rainfall received from last night.
Belding mesonet land owner reports half-dollar size hail at the mesonet.
Pecos County Emergency Manager reports quarter-size hail at Spur 194, west of Fort Stockton.
Pecos County Emergency Manager reports half-dollar size hail and localized flash flooding on the south side of Fort Stockton.
Pecos County Emergency Manager reports golf ball size hail at Spur 194, west of Fort Stockton. This is with a second thunderstorm.
Emergency manager reports ping pong ball size hail in Imperial.
Public report of pea to ping pong ball size hail between Grandfalls and Crane. Time and location are estimated from radar.
Public photo showing hail estimated to be roughly ping pong ball size. Time is estimated from radar.
Public photo of quarter to half-dollar-size hail at 38th St in Odessa. Time was estimated from radar.
CoCoRaHS observer reports hail between penny and quarter size.
Report received from mPING of quarter-size hail.
Water was reported over the curb on Billy Hext Rd at Highway 191.
Report received from mPING of flash flooding.
Report of a carport being tossed into a home causing damage and T-posts ripped out of the ground and being lodged into a barb-wired fence. Time is estimated from radar. Wind speeds are estimated to be 80 mph. Property cost damage is an estimation.
FM 612 has flooding in multiple locations. A school bus has become stalled as a result of a low water crossing. Property damage cost is an estimation.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 2023
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1145094, 1145101, 1145098, 1145099, 1145100, 1145102, 1145103, 1145106, 1145105, 1145104, 1145108, 1145107, 1145095, 1145109, 1145110, 1145096, 1145111, 1145097.