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High Wind Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 17, 2014Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Mar 17, 2014, 3:00 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 17, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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
Mar 17, 2014, 3:00 AM MDT (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 17, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 17, 2014, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
6 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 09:00 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, 9.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2014-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

695 
WWUS74 KMAF 170900
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
400 AM CDT MON MAR 17 2014

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MDT THIS
EVENING FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...

.AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS
AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN INCREASING SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THE
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. 

NMZ027-TXZ258-171700-
/O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0016.140317T1800Z-140318T0000Z/
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...
PINE SPRINGS
300 AM MDT MON MAR 17 2014

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MDT THIS
EVENING...

* EVENT...HIGH WINDS.

* TIMING...NOON TODAY TO 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...THESE WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR MOTORISTS
  DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SUCH AS CAMPERS... VANS...AND
  TRACTOR TRAILERS. TURBULENCE ACROSS AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS WILL
  BE HAZARDOUS FOR LIGHT AIRCRAFT.

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH.

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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 3:55 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMAF14 hr
Mar 17, 1:45 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMAF14 hr

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.