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Blowing Dust Advisory 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this blowing dust advisory at Dec 19, 2012, 4:15 AM CST for 14 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 19, 2012, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2012, 4:15 AM CST (10:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 19, 2012, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2012, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- 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, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 339 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
- 3068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blowing dust advisory 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Dec 18, 11:33 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 11:33 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
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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.