Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2007
High Wind Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at May 4, 2007, 3:01 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 4, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 30 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
- May 4, 2007, 3:01 AM MDT (09:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 4, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 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 09:02 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, 9.0 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
- 2813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 040901 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 401 AM CDT FRI MAY 4 2007 ...INCREASING WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES WILL MOVE TOWARD WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL RESULT IN STRONG WINDS THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THESE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO SATURDAY. NMZ027-TXZ258-042130- /O.UPG.KMAF.HW.A.0015.070504T1800Z-070505T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0025.070504T1800Z-070505T1800Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 301 AM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 12 PM MDT SATURDAY... ...HIGH WIND WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT...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 NOON TODAY TO 12 PM MDT SATURDAY. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUST TO AROUND 60 MPH DURING THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL REMAIN UP OVERNIGHT AND EXTEND INTO SATURDAY. WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS THROUGH THE GUADALUPE PASS...ESPECIALLY FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. PILOTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STANDING WAVE CLOUDS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF MOUNTAIN WAVE ACTIVITY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS74 KMAF 041940 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 240 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2007 ...STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES WILL MOVE TOWARD WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL RESULT IN STRONG WINDS THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. NMZ027-TXZ258-050900- /O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0025.000000T0000Z-070505T1800Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 140 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM MDT SATURDAY... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON SATURDAY. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUST TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT AND INTO THE MORNING HOURS ON SATURDAY. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS THROUGH THE GUADALUPE PASS...ESPECIALLY FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. $$
000 WWUS74 KMAF 050932 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 432 AM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...STRONG WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY TODAY. A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS UPPER LOW WILL RESULT IN STRONG WINDS THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. NMZ027-TXZ258-060000- /O.EXT.KMAF.HW.W.0025.000000T0000Z-070506T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 332 AM MDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUST TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS ON U.S. HIGHWAY 62...180 THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS... ESPECIALLY FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. $$
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2007High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2007Every 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.