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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 25, 201218 counties in Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this fire weather watch at Feb 25, 2012, 12:58 PM CST for 18 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 28, 2012, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 25, 2012, 12:58 PM CST (18:58 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 28, 2012, 11:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 27, 2012, 2:25 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties 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), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Feb 25, 11:24 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 11:24 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 25, 7:02 AM CSTFire Weather WatchMAF30 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.