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High Wind Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 27, 2012Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Apr 27, 2012, 6:21 AM MDT 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
Apr 27, 2012, 6:21 AM MDT (12:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
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 12:23 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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -154 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 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.

375 
WWUS74 KMAF 271221 AAA
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
721 AM CDT FRI APR 27 2012

NMZ027-TXZ258-271800-
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0025.120427T1221Z-120427T1800Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
621 AM MDT FRI APR 27 2012

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY. 

* EVENT...HIGH WINDS.

* TIMING...THROUGH THE MORNING.

* IMPACTS...HIGH WINDS THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS WILL AFFECT TRAVEL
  ALONG HIGHWAY 62 180 AND HIKERS MAY BE AFFECTED BY HIGH WINDS ON
  WEST FACING ASPECTS AND ON EXPOSED RIDGES. LIGHT AIRCRAFT WILL
  BE AFFECTED BY CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE AND ARE ADVISED TO GO AROUND
  GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.

* WINDS...30 TO 40 MPH SUSTAINED WITH A FEW GUSTS AS HIGH AS 65 TO
  70 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 2:47 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMAF17 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2012High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2012Every high wind warning in 2012

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.