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High Wind Warning 58, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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
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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.