Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2014
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Jan 4, 2014, 3:56 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 4, 2014, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 13 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
- Jan 4, 2014, 3:56 AM MST (10:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2014, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2014, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 13 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 10:56 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, 10.9 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
- 2347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
481 WWUS74 KMAF 041056 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 456 AM CST SAT JAN 4 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. TODAY WITH HIGH WINDS AT THE BASE OF THIS TROUGH MOVING OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THESE WEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE AND RESULT IN HIGH WINDS THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS. NMZ027-TXZ258-042100- /O.UPG.KMAF.HW.A.0001.140104T1800Z-140105T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0001.140104T1800Z-140105T0100Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 356 AM MST SAT JAN 4 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * EVENT...HIGH WINDS. * TIMING...TODAY. * WINDS...WEST AT 35 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. * IMPACTS...THESE WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH AS CAMPERS... VANS...AND TRACTOR TRAILERS. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
955 WWUS74 KMAF 042052 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 252 PM CST SAT JAN 4 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH HAS BROUGHT HIGH WINDS TO THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THESE WEST WINDS WILL SUBSIDE AFTER SUNSET AS THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES EAST. NMZ027-TXZ258-050100- /O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140105T0100Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 152 PM MST SAT JAN 4 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING... * EVENT...HIGH WINDS. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST AT 35 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. * IMPACTS...THESE WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH AS CAMPERS... VANS...AND TRACTOR TRAILERS. AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
699 WWUS74 KMAF 050008 AAA NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 608 PM CST SAT JAN 4 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH HAS BROUGHT HIGH WINDS TO THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. THESE WEST WINDS WILL PERSISTS INTO THE EVENING AND THEN SUBSIDE AFTER MIDNIGHT. NMZ027-TXZ258-050600- /O.EXT.KMAF.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140105T0700Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 508 PM MST SAT JAN 4 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MST TONIGHT... * EVENT...HIGH WINDS. * TIMING...THIS EVENING. * WINDS...WEST AND NORTHWEST AT 35 TO 50 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. * IMPACTS...THESE WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR MOTORISTS DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH AS CAMPERS... VANS...AND TRACTOR TRAILERS. 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, 2014High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2014Every high wind warning in 2014
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.