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High Wind Watch 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Dec 22, 2008, 3:25 PM CST for Loving County, Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 23, 2008, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2008, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 23, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2008, 4:46 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Loving County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 22, 2:52 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 2:52 PM CST, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 6:30 PM CST | High Wind Warning | MAF | 10 hr | |
| Dec 22, 3:25 PM CST | High Wind Warning | MAF | 39 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.