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High Wind Warning 35, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Dec 8, 2012, 1:27 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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
- Dec 8, 2012, 1:27 PM MST (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2012, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 4 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 20:25 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, 8.5 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
- 3374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
519 WWUS74 KMAF 082027 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 227 PM CST SAT DEC 8 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FOR GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH 5 PM MST TODAY... ...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT FOR THE GUADALUPE PASS... ...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT MONDAY MORNING FOR PECOS...BREWSTER... TERRELL COUNTIES... .GUSTY WEST WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WITH GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH BEING REPORTED AND A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED THROUGH 5 PM MST. A STRONG COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THROUGHOUT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WINDS WILL INCREASE AND SHIFT OUT OF THE NORTHEAST BEHIND THE FRONT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS SUNDAY NIGHT. ALSO A FREEZE IS EXPECTED MONDAY MORNING IN PECOS...BREWSTER...AND TERRELL COUNTIES. THIS IS EXPECTED TO THE FIRST WIDESPREAD FREEZE FOR THESE COUNTIES. NMZ027-090000- /O.CAN.KMAF.HW.A.0024.121210T0000Z-121210T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0035.121208T2027Z-121209T0000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...QUEEN 127 PM MST SAT DEC 8 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... ...HIGH WIND WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGH WIND WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SUNDAY NIGHT. * EVENT...HIGH WINDS FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. * TIMING...REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WINDS. * WINDS...WEST 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 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. && $$ TXZ258-090000- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0035.121208T2027Z-121209T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMAF.HW.A.0024.121210T0000Z-121210T0900Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS 127 PM MST SAT DEC 8 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... ...HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * EVENT...HIGH WINDS FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. * TIMING...REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. AGAIN LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT FOR GUADALUPE PASS. * IMPACTS...DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WINDS. * WINDS...TODAY WEST 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. SUNDAY NIGHT NORTHEAST 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE... OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. PILOTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STANDING WAVE CLOUDS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF MOUNTAIN WAVE ACTIVITY. && $$ TXZ075-081-082-090000- /O.NEW.KMAF.FZ.A.0001.121210T1000Z-121210T1400Z/ PECOS-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT STOCKTON...BIG BEND NP... MARATHON...SANDERSON 227 PM CST SAT DEC 8 2012 ...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. * EVENT...FIRST WIDESPREAD FREEZE. * TIMING...MONDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS AND ANIMALS WILL NEED TO BE SHELTERED. * TEMPERATURE...28 TO 32. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WATCH MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE. THESE CONDITIONS COULD KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 3:24 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 21 hr |
| Dec 8, 1:27 PM MST | Freeze Watch | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 14 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.