Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2009
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Jan 8, 2009, 1:25 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 9, 2009, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 12 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
- Jan 8, 2009, 1:25 PM MST (20:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2009, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2009, 5:29 PM MST
- In force
- 12 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 20:26 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 12:00Z, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMAF 082025 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 225 PM CST THU JAN 8 2009 ...HIGH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS FRIDAY... .AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH NEARS THE 4-CORNERS REGION FRIDAY MID LEVEL WINDS TO THE SOUTH OF THIS TROUGH WILL INCREASE RESULTING IN STRENGTHENING WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AS EARLY AS FRIDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL DECREASE IN THE EVENING BUT LATE IN THE NIGHT WINDS WILL INCREASE FROM EAST AS A COLD FRONT PASSES. NMZ027-TXZ258-091000- /O.UPG.KMAF.HW.A.0003.090109T0600Z-090110T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0003.090109T1200Z-090110T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...PINE SPRINGS 125 PM MST THU JAN 8 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 5 PM MST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 5 PM MST FRIDAY. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS74 KMAF 090956 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 356 AM CST FRI JAN 9 2009 ...HIGH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS FRIDAY... .AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM SETTLES ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION TODAY...UPPER LEVEL WINDS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THIS SYSTEM WILL INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS WILL RESULT IN HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...WITH CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY MID EVENING HOURS TONIGHT. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT AS A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REGION RESULTING IN A WIND SHIFT TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. NMZ027-TXZ258-091800- /O.EXT.KMAF.HW.W.0003.090109T1200Z-090110T0300Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...PINE SPRINGS 256 AM MST FRI JAN 9 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND HAS EXTENDED THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY EVENING ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
000 WWUS74 KMAF 091747 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1147 AM CST FRI JAN 9 2009 ...HIGH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY... .STRONG WESTERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TODAY AS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES FROM THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. THIS IN TURN SHOULD CAUSE HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...WITH CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT AS A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REGION RESULTING IN A WIND SHIFT TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. NMZ027-TXZ258-100300- /O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090110T0300Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...PINE SPRINGS 1047 AM MST FRI JAN 9 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. 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. && $$
000 WWUS74 KMAF 100029 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 629 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2009 NMZ027-TXZ258-100130- /O.CAN.KMAF.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090110T0300Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...PINE SPRINGS 529 PM MST FRI JAN 9 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE AROUND MIDNIGHT. THEREAFTER A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS AND WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST AND EAST AT 15 TO 30 MPH. GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GUADALUPE PASS. $$
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2009High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2009Every high wind warning in 2009
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.