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High Wind Warning 47, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Jun 18, 2008, 12:23 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2008, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2008, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:00 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Garden City, TX | FENCE BLOWN DOWN, POWER OUT IN CITY |
| Jun 18, 1:21 AM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 3 W Odessa, TX | IN WEST ODESSA |
| Jun 18, 1:30 AM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 7 Se Odessa, TX | |
| Jun 18, 2:40 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rankin, TX | TREES REPORTED UPROOTED AND A LARGE TREE SNAPPED AT THE BASE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMAF 180523 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1223 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR PERMIAN BASIN THROUGH 300 AM... A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS MOVING DOWN FROM THE NORTH HAS PRODUCED A STRONG OUTFLOW. THIS OUTFLOW MAY HAVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN IN ADVANCE OF THESE STORMS. AS THE STORMS APPROACH... LOCALLY SEVERE WIND WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE. TXZ060>063-067>070-180800- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0047.080618T0523Z-080618T0800Z/ WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KERMIT...ODESSA...MIDLAND... GARDEN CITY...MONAHANS...CRANE...MCCAMEY...RANKIN...BIG LAKE 1223 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. SUSTAINED NORTH WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THE CENTRAL PERMIAN BASIN THROUGH 300 AM. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 52 min |
| Jun 17, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 11:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Scurry | 118 days |
| Jun 17, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 1:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Ector | 118 days |
| Jun 18, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 8:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 7 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.