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High Wind Watch 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 13, 2013, 11:18 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 15, 2013, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2013, 11:18 AM MDT (17:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2013, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2013, 2:43 AM MDT
- In force
- 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 17:23 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, 5.3 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
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 13, 5:07 AM MDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 5:07 AM MDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 2:32 AM MDT, 8 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 332 AM CDT SAT APR 13 2013 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-140845- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU- BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 332 AM CDT SAT APR 13 2013 /232 AM MDT SAT APR 13 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. A FEW OF THE STORMS OVER THE DAVIS AND GLASS MOUNTAINS IN PARTICULAR...COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WILL BE MORE APT TO PRODUCE DRY LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WESTERLY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS SUNDAY. A HIGH WIND WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF A MARFA TO PECOS TO MIDLAND TO COLORADO CITY LINE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEREFORE...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS. IT WILL BE DRY AND BREEZY AREAWIDE SUNDAY...BUT WESTERLY WINDS WILL BE STRONGEST IN THE ABOVE LOCATIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:53 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | 24 hr | |
| Apr 13, 12:39 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Gaines | 39 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 24 min |
| Apr 13, 1:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 23 min | |
| Apr 13, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 2:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Presidio | 34 min |
| Apr 13, 3:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Presidio | 23 min |
| Apr 13, 3:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 3:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 67 min |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2013High Wind Watches in Texas, 2013Every high wind watch in 2013
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.