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High Wind Watch 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 21, 20198 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Feb 21, 2019, 4:11 AM CST for 8 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 22, 2019, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 2019, 4:11 AM CST (10:11 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 22, 2019, 9:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 22, 2019, 2:47 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Feb 21, 3:49 AM CST, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 3:49 AM CST, 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 4:28 AM CSTFire Weather WatchMAF34 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Texas, 2019High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2019Every high wind watch in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.