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Special Weather Statement, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 4, 2012Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this special weather statement at Nov 4, 2012, 3:19 PM CST for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 4, 2012, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Nov 4, 2012, 4:15 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Nov 3, 5:49 PM CDT, 22 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 5:49 PM CDT, 22 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
549 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012

.DISCUSSION...

SEE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW.

&&

.AVIATION...

NO AVIATION CONCERNS NEXT 24 HOURS...AS VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL.
12Z MODEL RUNS HAD FORECASTED A POST-FRONTAL MVFR STRATUS DECK TO
DEVELOP AT KMAF OVERNIGHT...BUT THIS IS NO LONGER EVIDENT IN 18Z
RUNS/BUFFER SOUNDINGS. OTHERWISE...RETURN FLOW RESUMES AFTER
SUNRISE...BUT FLOW WILL BE LIGHT.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 231 PM CDT SAT NOV 3 2012/

DISCUSSION...

A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF OUR
CWA THIS AFTERNOON. WITH PRESSURE FALLS ALREADY OCCURRING OVER THE
PLAINS...THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SLOW AND BECOME STATIONARY TONIGHT
ACROSS THE I-10 CORRIDOR.

MOST CURRENT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DISSIPATE TONIGHT
WITH LOW TEMPERATURES COOLING BACK INTO THE 40'S AND 50'S. UPPER
LEVEL SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT EAST OF OUR AREA BY
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, HOWEVER MOISTURE POOLING ALONG THE STATIONARY
FRONT AND TERRAIN EFFECTS WILL HELP TO PRODUCE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE DAVIS AND GLASS MOUNTAINS...SOME OF WHICH
MAY BE STRONG.

BY MONDAY, A SHORTWAVE WILL DROP SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS
HELPING TO CARVE OUT A TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN U.S. THIS WILL BRING
ANOTHER COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA MONDAY MORNING AND HELP MAINTAIN
DRY CONDITIONS AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES EARLY THIS WEEK. AN
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS THEN EXPECTED TO DIG INTO THE PACIFIC NW BY
MIDWEEK. SWLY FLOW ALOFT WILL STRENGTHEN ACROSS THE ROCKIES AND
INDUCE A LEE SFC TROUGH OVER THE FRONT RANGE. THIS WILL LEAD TO
INCREASED SOUTHERLY FLOW AND MUCH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS RETURNING TO
THE AREA LATE THIS WEEK. MEANWHILE...COLD AIR WILL BUILD SOUTH
ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS AS THE UPPER TROUGH SHIFTS
EAST. LONG RANGE MODELS DIFFER ON STRENGTH AND TIMING OF THE COLD
AIR ACROSS OUR AREA SO WILL NOT CHANGE TOO MUCH IN THE EXTENDED.

&&

.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...NONE.
TX...NONE.

&&

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.