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High Wind Watch 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 10, 20205 counties in Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 10, 2020, 1:47 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 12, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2020, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 12, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 12, 2020, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Eddy 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), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 1077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 10, 12:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 12:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 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
Apr 10, 1:47 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	MAF	Culberson	38 hr
Apr 10, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane	16 min
Apr 10, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	66 min
Apr 10, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane	26 min
Apr 10, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Ward	41 min
Apr 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector	67 min
Apr 10, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	61 min
Apr 10, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	60 min
Apr 10, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	55 min
Apr 10, 6:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Ector	2 hr
Apr 10, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	60 min
Apr 10, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	63 min

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Texas, 2020 High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2020 Every high wind watch in 2020

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.