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High Wind Watch 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 11, 2008Loving County, Ward County, Winkler County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 11, 2008, 2:29 PM CDT for Loving County, Ward County, Winkler County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 12, 2008, 4:05 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 11, 2008, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 12, 2008, 4:05 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 12, 2008, 3:40 PM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Loving County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 11, 2:26 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 2:26 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 6:24 AM CDTFire Weather WatchMAF23 hr
Mar 11, 6:24 AM CDTFire Weather WatchMAFAndrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more33 hr
Mar 11, 6:24 AM CDTFire Weather WatchMAFAndrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more33 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Texas, 2008High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2008Every high wind watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.