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High Wind Watch 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 19, 2008Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 19, 2008, 2:59 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 20, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2008, 2:59 AM MDT (08:59 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 20, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 20, 2008, 3:51 AM MDT
In force
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 08:58 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 357 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 5900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 19, 2:50 AM MDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 2:50 AM MDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 1:36 PM MDT, 13 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
236 PM CDT FRI APR 18 2008

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-191945-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES-
DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL-
VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-
REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-
GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-
PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
236 PM CDT FRI APR 18 2008 /136 PM MDT FRI APR 18 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE GUADALUPE
MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND VAN HORN/HIGHWAY 54
CORRIDOR REGION SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS
OF AT LEAST 20 TO 25 MPH WILL COMBINE WITH ABOVE NORMAL
TEMPERATURES AND DRY AIR OVER THE REGION TO CREATE LOW AFTERNOON
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH FIRE DANGER.

CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS
PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ON SUNDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN AREAS OF CONCERN WILL BE THE
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS...
NORTHWESTERN AND WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN...UPPER TRANS PECOS...
DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND VAN HORN/HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...
AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 2:12 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more	32 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2008 High Wind Watches in Texas, 2008 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.