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High Wind Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Dec 22, 2014, 6:09 PM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 9 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
- Dec 22, 2014, 6:09 PM MST (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2014, 2:46 AM MST
- In force
- 9 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 01:12 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, 1.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
401 WWUS74 KMAF 230109 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 709 PM CST MON DEC 22 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6000 FEET TONIGHT... .THE APPROACH OF A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH HAS RESULTED IN HIGH WINDS IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS EVENING. SINCE STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS WILL RAKE BOTH THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS OVERNIGHT, A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BOTH MOUNTAINS RANGES. THE HIGH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. NMZ027-TXZ074-258-231000- /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0036.141223T0109Z-141223T1000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...ALPINE...FORT DAVIS... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS 709 PM CST MON DEC 22 2014 /609 PM MST MON DEC 22 2014/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CST /3 AM MST/ TUESDAY... * EVENT...HIGH WINDS. * TIMING...OVERNIGHT. * WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG CROSSWINDS ON NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED ROADS ARE EXPECTED AND WILL PRODUCE VERY DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. AVIATION INTERESTS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED BUT EXTREME TURBULENCE...OR STRONG DOWNWARD AIRFLOWS...IF FLYING IN THE VICINITY OF THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
926 WWUS74 KMAF 230946 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 346 AM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... .WINDS HAVE REMAINED BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA...AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO INCREASE THIS MORNING. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NMZ027-TXZ074-258-231100- /O.CAN.KMAF.HW.W.0036.000000T0000Z-141223T1000Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...ALPINE...FORT DAVIS... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP...PINE SPRINGS 346 AM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 /246 AM MST TUE DEC 23 2014/ ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS HAVE REMAINED BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA...AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO INCREASE THIS MORNING. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ STROBIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 8:18 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 12:14 PM MST | Wind Advisory | MAF | Gaines | 5 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.