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High Wind Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 14, 2012Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Feb 14, 2012, 12:59 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 14, 2012, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 15 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: Feb 14, 2012, 12:59 PM MST (19:59 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 14, 2012, 11:00 PM MST
Expired: Feb 15, 2012, 2:00 PM MST
In force: 15 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 20:05 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, 8.0 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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.

065 
WWUS74 KMAF 141959
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
159 PM CST TUE FEB 14 2012

....HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE GUADALUPE
MOUNTAINS FOR LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...

.A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL PASS TO THE NORTH WEDNESDAY MORNING.
THE ASSOCIATED JET STREAM WINDS WILL PASS ACROSS THE AREA RESULTING
IN HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. HIGH WINDS MAY START
AS EARLY AS AROUND MIDNIGHT.

NMZ027-TXZ258-151030-
/O.UPG.KMAF.HW.A.0007.120215T1200Z-120216T0000Z/
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0008.120215T0600Z-120215T2100Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
1259 PM MST TUE FEB 14 2012

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 2 PM
MST WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH
WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 2 PM
MST WEDNESDAY. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

* EVENT...HIGH WIND.

* TIMING...LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

* WINDS...WEST 30 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

* IMPACTS...THESE WINDS MAY MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT THROUGH
  GUADALUPE PASS FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH
  AS CAMPERS...VANS...AND TRACTOR TRAILERS. MOUNTAINS WAVES NEAR
  THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WILL RESULT IN EXTREME TURBULENCE. LIGHT
  AIRCRAFT SHOULD AVOID FLYING AROUND AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS.

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

859 
WWUS74 KMAF 151040
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
440 AM CST WED FEB 15 2012

....HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

.STRONG MID LEVEL WIND SPEEDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THIS MORNING ON THE BASE OF AN UPPER LEVEL
LOW MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.
HIGH WINDS WILL MAINLY IMPACT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY BEFORE SPEEDS DIMINISH LATER THIS
AFTERNOON. 

NMZ027-TXZ258-152100-
/O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120215T2100Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
340 AM MST WED FEB 15 2012

...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM MST THIS
AFTERNOON...

* EVENT...HIGH WINDS WILL MAINLY IMPACT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF
  THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY.

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. 

* WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

* IMPACTS...WINDS WILL BE PARTICULARLY HAZARDOUS AT HIGHER
  ELEVATIONS WHERE THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR.
  AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME
  TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE
  VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. 

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.

&&

$$

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2012 High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2012 Every 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.