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High Wind Warning 58, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

December 26, 2011Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Dec 26, 2011, 10:50 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 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
Dec 26, 2011, 10:50 AM MST (17:50 UTC)
Expired
Dec 26, 2011, 5:00 PM MST
In force
6 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 17:56 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, 5.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2011-12-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2011-12-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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.

514 
WWUS74 KMAF 261750
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1150 AM CST MON DEC 26 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...

.A STRONG UPPER LOW MOVING ACROSS WEST TEXAS TODAY HAS RESULTED
IN HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF
45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE GUADALUPE
MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STRONG WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE
BY THIS EVENING AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES FARTHER AWAY FROM THE AREA.

NMZ027-TXZ258-270000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0058.111226T1750Z-111227T0000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
1050 AM MST MON DEC 26 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. 

* EVENT...HIGH WIND EVENT FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.

* TIMING...THROUGH 5PM MST.

* IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY TRAVELING 
  THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. LIGHT AIRCRAFT MAY ENCOUNTER 
  SEVERE TURBULENCE AND SHOULD AVOID FLYING NEAR THE MOUNTAINS. 

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST WIND OF 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 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.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
419 
WWUS74 KMAF 262347
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
547 PM CST MON DEC 26 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO EXPIRE 
AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON...

NMZ027-TXZ258-270100-
/O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0058.000000T0000Z-111227T0000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
447 PM MST MON DEC 26 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON...

WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS
AFTERNOON...THUS THE WIND WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH THIS EVENING WILL DECREASE
TO 15 TO 20 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

$$

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.