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High Wind Watch 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Dec 6, 2009, 3:19 PM CST for 18 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 8, 2009, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 6, 2009, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2009, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2009, 3:06 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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.
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 6, 2:57 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 2:57 PM CST, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 9:49 AM CST | High Wind Warning | MAF | 6 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Texas, 2009High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2009Every 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.