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Snow Advisory 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

December 29, 2006Gaines County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this snow advisory at Dec 29, 2006, 2:45 PM CST for Gaines County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 29, 2006, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 29, 2006, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 29, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 30, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 327 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-12-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-12-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 28, 9:54 PM CSTSnow AdvisoryMAF14 hr
Dec 29, 5:35 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMAFGaines9 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.