Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Feb 8, 2008, 7:46 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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
- Feb 8, 2008, 7:46 AM MST (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2008, 1:00 PM MST
- In force
- 5 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 14:51 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 12:00Z, 2.8 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
- 3581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 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 081446 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 846 AM CST FRI FEB 8 2008 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR STRONG WIND ACROSS THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE AREA IS BRINGING STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. EXPECT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 65 ABOVE 5000 FEET. EXPECT THESE STRONGER WINDS TO BEGIN TO DIE DOWN THIS AFTERNOON AS THE TROUGH BEGINS TO EXIT THE AREA. NMZ027-TXZ074-258-082000- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0013.080208T1446Z-080208T2000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...ALPINE... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS 846 AM CST FRI FEB 8 2008 /746 AM MST FRI FEB 8 2008/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST /1 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST /1 PM MST/ THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS OUT OF THE MCDONALD OBSERVATORY HAVE INDICATED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH WITH WITH GUSTS TO 63 MPH THIS MORNING. EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE WINDS BEGIN TO DROP BACK DOWN BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA. IN ADDITION...WINDS HAVE BEEN SUSTAINED TO NEAR 30 MPH IN THE BOWL...HOWEVER GUSTS TO NEAR 70 MPH HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED. 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. $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 5:57 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2008High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2008Every high wind warning in 2008
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.