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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

January 21, 2007Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Jan 21, 2007, 5:20 AM MST 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
Jan 21, 2007, 5:20 AM MST (12:20 UTC)
Expired
Jan 21, 2007, 8:00 AM MST
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 12:24 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-01-21Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-01-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 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 211222
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
620 AM CST SUN JAN 21 2007

...STRONG WINDS IN THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS ARE EXPECTED TO 
CONTINUE THIS MORNING...

.VERY STRONG WINDS CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS
MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WITH
GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH 9 AM CST
/8 AM MST/ ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. IN THE DAVIS
MOUNTAINS... THE WINDS WILL REMAIN CONFINED TO LOCATIONS ABOVE
6000 FEET...WITH SPEEDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH AND GUSTS TO NEAR 65 MPH.

THESE WINDS...ALONG WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW TO MID 30S WILL
RESULT IN WIND CHILL VALUES IN THE TEENS. IN ADDITION...WATER ON
ROADS IN THESE AREAS WILL FREEZE AS THE TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO
FALL BELOW FREEZING AND LIKELY PRODUCE A THIN SHEET OF BLACK ICE
ON THE ROADS. TRAVEL CONTINUES TO BE DISCOURAGED THROUGH THESE
AREAS UNTIL THE WINDS AND FREEZING CONDITIONS SUBSIDE LATER THIS
MORNING.

NMZ027-TXZ074-258-211500-
/O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070121T1200Z/
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0004.070121T1220Z-070121T1500Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...ALPINE...
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS
620 AM CST SUN JAN 21 2007 /520 AM MST SUN JAN 21 2007/

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST /8 AM MST/ THIS
MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST /8 AM MST/ THIS
MORNING. 

SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 65 MPH
CONTINUE THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING....AND ABOVE
6000 FEET IN THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED THROUGH
THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS...THE LOW 
WIND CHILL VALUES...AND THE ICY ROADS.

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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 20, 9:20 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningMAF8 hr

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.