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High Wind Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 28, 2007Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Mar 28, 2007, 3:06 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 28, 2007, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 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
Mar 28, 2007, 3:06 AM MDT (09:06 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 28, 2007, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 28, 2007, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
12 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 09:04 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-03-28Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 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 280906
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
406 AM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY...

.A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER UTAH WILL MAKE IT/S WAY
INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION THIS EVENING.  STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS
AROUND THE BASE OF THIS LOW WILL RESULT IN STRONG WINDS IN THE
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY.  THESE STRONGER WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO 
DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET.  

NMZ027-TXZ258-290000-
/O.UPG.KMAF.HW.A.0009.070328T1200Z-070329T0000Z/
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0017.070328T1200Z-070329T0000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
306 AM MDT WED MAR 28 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT
THIS AFTERNOON...
...HIGH WIND WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM
MDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO THE 30 TO 45 MPH RANGE.
GUSTS TO 65 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE.  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.

$$

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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.