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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 3, 2020Culberson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this winter storm watch at Mar 3, 2020, 2:44 AM CST for Culberson County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 3, 2020, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2020, 2:44 AM CST (08:44 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 3, 2020, 9:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 3, 2020, 2:57 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Culberson County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 212 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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 winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 2, 10:29 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 10:29 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 2:57 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningMAFCulberson21 hr
Mar 3, 2:57 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMAFBrewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio21 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Texas, 2020Every winter storm 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.