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High Wind Watch 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Nov 7, 2020, 1:48 PM CST for Culberson County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Nov 9, 2020, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 2020, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 9, 2020, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2020, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Culberson County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 3152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Texas, 2020High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2020Every 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.