Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2007
High Wind Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Feb 20, 2007, 3:30 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2007, 3:30 AM MST (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2007, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMAF 201030 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 ...STRONG WEST WINDS EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS TODAY... .AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA TODAY...THEN EAST OF THE REGION TONIGHT. STRONG WEST WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS TODAY. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. NMZ027-TXZ074-258-210000- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0010.070220T1030Z-070221T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...ALPINE... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS 430 AM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 /330 AM MST TUE FEB 20 2007/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO THE 35 TO 45 MPH RANGE...WITH GUSTS AROUND 65 MPH...THIS MORNING IN THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS. THESE STRONGER WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6000 FEET IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. THE WINDS SHOULD DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KMAF 202041 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 241 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 NMZ027-TXZ074-258-210000- /O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070221T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...ALPINE... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS 241 PM CST TUE FEB 20 2007 /141 PM MST TUE FEB 20 2007/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... WEST WINDS HAVE BEEN DECREASING AND SUSTAINED WINDS MAY APPROACH 40 MPH THROUGH 6 PM CST. THE WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE GUADALUPE PASS. $$
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.