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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

January 29, 2008Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Jan 29, 2008, 4:33 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 30, 2008, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 29, 2008, 4:33 AM MST (11:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 30, 2008, 8:00 AM MST
Expired: Jan 29, 2008, 2:27 PM MST
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 11:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 11.6 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.

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: 2375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 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 Jan 29, 3:25 AM MST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 3:25 AM MST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 28, 2:38 PM MST, 13 hours 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 29, 4:39 AM MST	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more	24 hr
Jan 29, 4:39 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more	10 hr
Jan 29, 2:27 PM MST	High Wind Warning	MAF		45 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.