Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 41, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at May 13, 2008, 1:34 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 13, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 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 13, 2008, 1:34 PM MDT (19:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 13, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 10 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 19:33 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, 7.6 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
- 380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMAF 131934 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 234 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... ..AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE STRENGTHENING AS IS TRACKS EASTWARD ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES. WINDS WILL LIKELY INCREASE ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AS THE STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES THE REGION. NMZ027-TXZ258-140600- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0041.080513T2000Z-080514T0600Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 134 PM MDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE AT 35 TO 45 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 60 MPH ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. MOTORISTS PLANNING TRAVEL ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 62 180 THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS TODAY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER HIGH WINDS. MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES MAY WANT TO PLAN ALTERNATE ROUTES. A HIGH WIND WATCH MEANS THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR STRONGER MAY OCCUR. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:59 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Loving | 18 hr |
| May 13, 12:57 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 13 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.