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High Wind Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 22, 2007Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Apr 22, 2007, 12:10 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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: Apr 22, 2007, 12:10 AM MDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2007, 3:00 AM MDT
In force: 3 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 06:14 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, 6.2 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: 454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -350 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 328 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WWUS74 KMAF 220610
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
110 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2007

...STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS IN
THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...

.SUBSIDENCE BEHIND A POTENT UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE
TO ALLOW STRONG WINDS TO MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE IN THE GUADALUPE
MOUNTAINS. WINDS WILL SLOWLY DECREASE UNTIL THEY ARE BELOW HIGH
WIND CRITERIA AROUND 3 AM MDT.

NMZ027-TXZ258-220900-
/O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070422T0600Z/
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0023.070422T0610Z-070422T0900Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
1210 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS EXTENDED THE HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT EARLY THIS MORNING.

HIGH PROFILE AND LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN
TRAVELING ON US 62/180 THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS TONIGHT. WINDS
SHOULD GRADUALLY SUBSIDE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND INTO THE 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.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 4:15 AM MDT	High Wind Watch	MAF	Eddy	24 hr
Apr 22, 4:34 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		16 hr
Apr 22, 2:25 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF		24 hr
Apr 22, 2:25 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		31 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2007 High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2007 Every high wind warning in 2007

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.