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High Wind Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 5, 2005Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Nov 5, 2005, 3:17 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 21 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 5, 2005, 3:17 AM MST (10:17 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2005, 1:55 PM MST
In force: 21 days
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Eddy County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS74 KMAF 051017
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
417 AM CST SAT NOV 5 2005

...STRONG WEST WINDS EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS 
MORNING...

.STRONG WEST WINDS WILL AFFECT THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS
MORNING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PASSES OVER THE AREA. 
EXPECT WEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH IN
THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO SPREAD TO THE
LOWER ELEVATIONS BY SUNRISE THIS MORNING.  THESE STRONGER WINDS
WILL LAST THROUGH THE MORNING...BUT SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE BY
LATE THIS MORNING.

NMZ027-TXZ258-051700-
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0006.051105T1017Z-051105T1700Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
317 AM MST SAT NOV 5 2005

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM MST THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM MST THIS MORNING. 

WEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH IN THE
HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WILL SINK TO THE
LOWER ELEVATIONS BY SUNRISE TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL SUBSIDE
BY LATE THIS MORNING.  

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS74 KMAF 051718
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1118 AM CST SAT NOV 5 2005

...WINDS WILL DECREASE OVER THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON...

NMZ027-TXZ258-051830-
/O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-051105T1700Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
1018 AM MST SAT NOV 5 2005

...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS ARE CURRENTLY
BELOW HIGH WIND WARNING CRITERION AND ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE
FURTHER THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 AND 35 MPH
WITH GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON.

$$

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.