Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2012
High Wind Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Mar 2, 2012, 5:21 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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
- Mar 2, 2012, 5:21 PM MST (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 3 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 00:20 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, 0.4 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
- 4919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
001 WWUS74 KMAF 030021 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 621 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST/8 PM MST/ TONIGHT FOR THE EDDY COUNTY PLAINS...VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR...THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...REEVES COUNTY...AND THE UPPER TRANS PECOS... .AS UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE ROCKIES AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA RESULTING IN INCREASED NORTHWEST WINDS. THIS WILL RESULT IN VERY WINDY CONDITIONS THROUGH MID EVENING. LOCAL BLOWING DUSTY WILL BE POSSIBLE. NMZ027-TXZ258-030300- /O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0016.000000T0000Z-120303T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0017.120303T0021Z-120303T0300Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 521 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING. * EVENT...STRONG WINDS. * TIMING...UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...WINDS WILL BE PARTICULARLY HAZARDOUS AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND THROUGH PASSES WHERE THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL DRIVING IN THESE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS. ABRUPT CHANGES IN WIND FORCES OCCUR WHEN ROUNDING SHARP TURNS OR PASSING OBSTACLES TO THE WIND... RESULTING IN LOSS OF CONTROL OF VEHICLES. * WINDS...WEST 30 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 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. TURBULENCE AROUND THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO LIGHT AIRCRAFT. 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. && $$ TXZ074-030300- /O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0016.000000T0000Z-120303T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMAF.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-120303T0300Z/ DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALPINE...FORT DAVIS 621 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... * EVENT...HIGH WINDS ESPECIALLY ABOVE 6000 FT. * TIMING...UNTIL 9 PM CST TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...SECURE LAWN FURNITURE...GARBAGE CANS...OR OTHER OBJECTS WHICH COULD BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ NMZ028-TXZ057-058-030300- /O.CON.KMAF.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-120303T0300Z/ EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ARTESIA...CARLSBAD... CARLSBAD CAVERNS NP...VAN HORN...PECOS 621 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 /521 PM MST FRI MAR 2 2012/ ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST /8 PM MST/ THIS EVENING... * EVENT...VERY WINDY. * TIMING...UNTIL 9 PM CST/ 8 PM MST. * IMPACTS...SECURE LAWN FURNITURE...GARBAGE CANS...OR OTHER OBJECTS WHICH COULD BE BLOWN ABOUT BY THE WIND. VISIBILITIES REDUCED IN BLOWING DUST. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
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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.