Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 51, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Nov 12, 2011, 9:56 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 7 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
- Nov 12, 2011, 9:56 PM MST (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 13, 2011, 5:00 AM MST
- In force
- 7 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 04:59 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, 4.9 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
- 4027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
239 WWUS74 KMAF 130456 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1056 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2011 ...STRONG WINDS TO IMPACT THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING... .AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL BRING INCREASING WINDS TO THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...ESPECIALLY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6500 FEET. NMZ027-TXZ258-131200- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0051.111113T0456Z-111113T1200Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 956 PM MST SAT NOV 12 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM MST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM MST SUNDAY. * EVENT...HIGH WINDS IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE AND LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES MAY EXPERIENCE CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY. MOTORISTS MAY WANT TO CONSIDER ALTERNATE ROUTES. MOUNTAINS WAVES NEAR THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 65 MPH. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 7:19 AM MST | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 20 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2011High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2011Every high wind warning in 2011
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.