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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

December 23, 2014Lea County, New Mexico; Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 23, 2014, 12:14 PM MST for Lea County, New Mexico; Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2014, 12:14 PM MST (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2014, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Lea County, NM, Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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.

535 
WWUS74 KMAF 231914
NPWMAF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
114 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL LEA COUNTY AND
GAINES COUNTY FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON...

.STRONG NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS
AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM EXITS THE AREA.

NMZ029-033-TXZ045-240000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.WI.Y.0021.141223T1914Z-141224T0000Z/
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-GAINES-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TATUM...HOBBS...LOVINGTON...SEMINOLE
114 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014 /1214 PM MST TUE DEC 23 2014/

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST /5 PM MST/ THIS
EVENING. 

* EVENT...STRONG WINDS

* TIMING...FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON

* IMPACTS...NORTH WINDS 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS
THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 22, 6:09 PM MST	High Wind Warning	MAF	Eddy	9 hr
Dec 22, 8:18 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MAF	Lea	6 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in New Mexico, 2014 Wind Advisories in Texas, 2014 Every wind advisory 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.