Oct 5, 2003
An active round of severe weather affected the Permian Basin during the evening of the 5th and the early morning hours of the 6th. An upper level disturbance interacted with a cold front to ignite thunderstorms that resulted in all modes of severe weather. Storms initially formed across the northwest parts of the Basin, with one of the first storms to show supercellular characteristics resulting in damaging hail between Kermit and Notrees. A supercell storm also developed in western Martin Count
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5372042). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Ector County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.