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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 10, 2012, 12:00 AM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2012, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2012, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Andrews County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:00 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 9, 9:39 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 9:39 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 12:00 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MAF | Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Reagan, Scurry | 4 hr |
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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.