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High Wind Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Dec 16, 2012, 8:11 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. 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
- Dec 16, 2012, 8:11 PM MST (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2012, 3:00 AM MST
- 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 03:09 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, 3.2 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
- 2746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
630 WWUS74 KMAF 170311 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 911 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS EXTENDED THROUGH 3AM MST... .AS THE UPPER TROUGH PASSES OVER THE AREA... HIGH WINDS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. THESE WINDS WILL REMAIN HIGH WELL INTO THE NIGHT. THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING WAS EXTENDED. WIND SPEEDS SHOULD FALL BELOW WARNING CRITERIA BEFORE SUNRISE BUT MAY INCREASE AGAIN MONDAY AFTERNOON. NMZ027-TXZ258-171000- /O.EXP.KMAF.HW.W.0038.000000T0000Z-121217T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0039.121217T0311Z-121217T1000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 811 PM MST SUN DEC 16 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MST MONDAY... ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MST MONDAY. * EVENT...STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS. * TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT.. * WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS AND ON NORTH/SOUTH ROADS WILL HAVE TROUBLE MAINTAINING CONTROL... SEVERE TURBULENCE IN AND AROUND THE MOUNTAINS WILL MAKE FOR DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT. STRONG WIND GUSTS MAY DAMAGE LIGHTWEIGHT OR EXPOSED STRUCTURES SUCH AS CARPORTS AND FENCES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE MOUNTAINS. PILOTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STANDING WAVE CLOUDS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF MOUNTAIN WAVE ACTIVITY. 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. && $$ NMZ028-170415- /O.EXP.KMAF.WI.Y.0020.000000T0000Z-121217T0300Z/ EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ARTESIA...CARLSBAD... CARLSBAD CAVERNS NP 811 PM MST SUN DEC 16 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WIND SPEEDS ACROSS THE PLAINS OF EDDY COUNTY HAVE DECREASED. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 3:30 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 3 more | 23 hr |
| Dec 17, 4:13 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Howard and 8 more | 34 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:39 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more | 26 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.