Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Warnings in 2016
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind warning at Jan 8, 2016, 3:14 AM MST for Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 8, 2016, 10:00 AM MST. 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
- Jan 8, 2016, 3:14 AM MST (10:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 8, 2016, 10:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2016, 7:00 PM 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 10:19 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, 10.2 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
- 2188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
369 WWUS74 KMAF 081014 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 414 AM CST FRI JAN 8 2016 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS FROM THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING OVER NEW MEXICO TODAY WILL RESULT IN HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AS HIGHER WINDS ALONG THE BASE OF THIS TROUGH MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE. NMZ027-TXZ258-082100- /O.UPG.KMAF.HW.A.0001.160108T1500Z-160109T0400Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.HW.W.0002.160108T1700Z-160109T0200Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 314 AM MST FRI JAN 8 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH MID EVENING TODAY. * WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...SEVERE TURBULENCE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN HAZARDOUS FLYING CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY FOR LOW FLYING LIGHT AIRCRAFT IN AROUND THE MOUNTAINS. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. HIKERS COULD EXPERIENCE DIFFICULT CONDITIONS ON EXPOSED RIDGETOPS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
142 WWUS74 KMAF 082003 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 203 PM CST FRI JAN 8 2016 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS EVENING... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING OVER NEW MEXICO TODAY WILL BRING HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AS HIGHER WINDS ALONG THE BASE OF THIS TROUGH MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE. WINDS WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING AS THE TROUGH MOVES EAST. NMZ027-TXZ258-090200- /O.CON.KMAF.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160109T0200Z/ GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...QUEEN...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP... PINE SPRINGS 103 PM MST FRI JAN 8 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING... * TIMING...NOW THROUGH MID EVENING TODAY. * WINDS...WEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...SEVERE TURBULENCE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN HAZARDOUS FLYING CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY FOR LOW FLYING LIGHT AIRCRAFT IN AROUND THE MOUNTAINS. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. HIKERS COULD EXPERIENCE DIFFICULT CONDITIONS ON EXPOSED RIDGETOPS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
Nearby
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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.