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High Wind Watch 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 2, 2009Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 2, 2009, 2:44 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 4, 2009, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2009, 2:44 PM MDT (20:44 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 4, 2009, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired: Apr 4, 2009, 4:29 AM MDT
In force: 4 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 20:46 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.

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 1, 5:27 PM MDT, 21 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 5:27 PM MDT, 21 hours 17 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
Apr 1, 10:12 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	MAF	Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Loving, Midland, Pecos and 4 more	11 hr
Apr 2, 4:17 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more	34 hr
Apr 2, 4:17 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more	11 hr
Apr 2, 8:45 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	MAF	Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Reagan, Scurry	3 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2009 High Wind Watches in Texas, 2009 Every high wind watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.