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High Wind Watch 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 18, 20195 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at May 18, 2019, 2:45 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 20, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2019, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
In effect from: May 20, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 20, 2019, 3:31 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Brewster County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at May 18, 2:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	48 min
May 17, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	42 min
May 17, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	18 min
May 17, 8:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Upton	51 min
May 18, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Winkler	52 min
May 18, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ector	47 min
May 18, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland, Winkler	61 min
May 18, 2:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	34 min
May 18, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	39 min
May 18, 2:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
May 18, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin	64 min
May 18, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	59 min
May 18, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	41 min
May 18, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin, Mitchell, Scurry	61 min
May 18, 4:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Mitchell	45 min
May 18, 4:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Glasscock	45 min
May 18, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	63 min
May 18, 5:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
May 18, 6:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	112 min
May 18, 6:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	42 min
May 18, 10:57 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	MAF	Culberson	8 hr

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.