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High Wind Warning 27, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 2007Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Jun 6, 2007, 10:24 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 20 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
Jun 6, 2007, 10:24 PM MDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2007, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
20 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 04:24 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, 4.4 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 2007-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2498 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.1

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The text

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

000 
WWUS74 KMAF 070424
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1124 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR THE GUADALUPE
MOUNTAINS...

.AS AN UPPER TROUGH PASSES TO THE NORTH OVERNIGHT...STRONG WEST
WINDS WILL PERSIST OVER THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.  WIND SPEEDS OF
40 MPH OR GREATER...WITH GUSTS AROUND 65 MPH POSSIBLE...ARE
EXPECTED THERE.

NMZ027-TXZ258-071000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0027.070607T0424Z-070607T1000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
1024 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM MDT THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM MDT THURSDAY. 

WEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 65 MPH...
CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT.

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 070909
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
409 AM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...

.AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST TODAY...STRONG
WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. WIND
SPEEDS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 65 MPH ARE
EXPECTED.  

NMZ027-TXZ258-080000-
/O.EXT.KMAF.HW.W.0027.000000T0000Z-070608T0000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
309 AM MDT THU JUN 7 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS
AFTERNOON...

WEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 65 MPH... CAN
BE EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS EVENING.

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.

$$

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.