Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2012
High Wind Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Oct 13, 2012, 3:15 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Oct 13, 2012, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Oct 13, 2012, 3:15 AM MDT (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2012, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 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 09:14 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, 9.3 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
- 1378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
749 WWUS74 KMAF 130915 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 415 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012 ...HIGH WINDS EXPECTED TODAY IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL CROSS THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND MOVE ONTO THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS TODAY. BEHIND THIS SYSTEM STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND THE GUADALUPE PASS. NMZ027-TXZ258-132000- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0030.121013T1700Z-121014T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 315 AM MDT SAT OCT 13 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * EVENT...STRONG WINDS. * TIMING...11 AM MDT TO 6 PM MDT TODAY. * IMPACTS...HIGH WINDS THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS MAY AFFECT TRAVEL ALONG HIGHWAY 62 180 AND HIKERS MAY BE AFFECTED BY HIGH WINDS ON WEST FACING ASPECTS AND ON EXPOSED RIDGES. * WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
666 WWUS74 KMAF 131939 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 239 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2012 ...HIGH WINDS TODAY IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IS CROSSING THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND MOVING ONTO THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS TODAY. BEHIND THIS SYSTEM STRONG WINDS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND THE GUADALUPE PASS. NMZ027-TXZ258-140000- /O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0030.000000T0000Z-121014T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 139 PM MDT SAT OCT 13 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING... * EVENT...STRONG WINDS. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 PM MDT TODAY. * IMPACTS...HIGH WINDS THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS MAY AFFECT TRAVEL ALONG HIGHWAY 62 180 AND HIKERS MAY BE AFFECTED BY HIGH WINDS ON WEST FACING ASPECTS AND ON EXPOSED RIDGES. * WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:45 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 7 hr |
| Oct 12, 8:36 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 11 hr |
| Oct 12, 9:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Yoakum | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 1:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Scurry | 35 min |
| Oct 12, 6:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 24 min |
| Oct 12, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 29 min |
| Oct 12, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 66 min |
| Oct 12, 7:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 8:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 min |
| Oct 12, 8:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 25 min |
| Oct 12, 9:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 12:13 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 17 min |
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.