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High Wind Watch 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 16, 2013Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 16, 2013, 3:12 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 17, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2013, 3:12 AM MDT (09:12 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 16, 2013, 1:45 PM 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 09:17 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, 9.2 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.

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: 5155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 15, 10:33 PM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 10:33 PM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 1:56 AM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
256 AM CDT TUE APR 16 2013

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-170800-
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-
256 AM CDT TUE APR 16 2013 /156 AM MDT TUE APR 16 2013/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

DRY AND WARM CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND
WEST TEXAS TODAY.  SINCE WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BE 20 MPH OR
GREATER OVER THE VAN HORN AREA...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO PLAINS AND NORTHWEST PERMIAN BASIN...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN
EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS TODAY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS.
SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST OVER PORTIONS OF THE
AREA WEDNESDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR THE VAN
HORN AREA...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND
NORTHWEST PERMIAN BASIN.

STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...THEREFORE A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT
FOR THIS AREA.

.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 16, 4:28 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Andrews, Gaines, Loving, Ward, Winkler	24 hr
Apr 16, 4:28 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	17 hr
Apr 16, 4:28 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 5 more	41 hr
Apr 16, 1:45 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	MAF		32 hr

Nearby

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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.