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High Wind Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 27, 2009Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Feb 27, 2009, 12:01 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 27, 2009, 12:01 AM MST (07:01 UTC)
Expired: Feb 27, 2009, 3:00 AM MST
In force: 3 hr
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 07:06 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 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: 5934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS74 KMAF 270701
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
101 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2009

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...

.SURFACE WINDS HAVE INCREASED AGAIN ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.
STRONG WEST WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 70 MPH
WILL CONTINUE THIS EARLY THIS MORNING.  WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE
BEFORE SUNRISE.

NMZ027-TXZ258-271000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0013.090227T0701Z-090227T1000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...PINE SPRINGS
1201 AM MST FRI FEB 27 2009

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MST FRIDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MST FRIDAY. 

WEST WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 70 MPH WILL
CONTINUE IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING
HOURS. TRAVELERS ALONG U.S. 62/180 SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER
THESE STRONG WINDS.

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
Feb 27, 3:51 AM MST	High Wind Watch	MAF		10 hr
Feb 27, 3:55 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	MAF		16 hr
Feb 27, 2:05 PM MST	High Wind Warning	MAF		20 hr
Feb 27, 2:05 PM MST	Wind Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more	13 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.