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Fire Weather Watch 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this fire weather watch at May 1, 2021, 2:52 AM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 2, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2021, 2:52 AM MDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2021, 3:35 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at May 1, 2:45 AM MDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:45 AM MDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 30, 12:30 PM MDT, 14 hours 22 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 130 PM CDT Fri Apr 30 2021 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-059>063-067>070-075-082- 270>282-011830- Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County-Eddy County Plains- Northern Lea County-Central Lea County-Southern Lea County-Gaines- Dawson-Borden-Scurry-Andrews-Martin-Howard-Mitchell-Loving-Winkler- Ector-Midland-Glasscock-Ward-Crane-Upton-Reagan-Pecos-Terrell- Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet-Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains- Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor-Eastern Culberson County- Reeves County Plains-Chinati Mountains-Marfa Plateau-Davis Mountains- Davis Mountains Foothills-Central Brewster County-Chisos Basin- Presidio Valley-Lower Brewster County- 130 PM CDT Fri Apr 30 2021 /1230 PM MDT Fri Apr 30 2021/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southeast New Mexico, southwest Texas, and western Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected today and tonight across portions of the Permian Basin and the Stockton Plateau. Localized flooding is possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms are expected through Saturday evening for the eastern Permian Basin and Lower Trans Pecos. Localized flooding is possible. High winds are possible Sunday in the Guadalupe, Delaware, and Davis Mountains. High Wind Watch for the Guadalupe Mountains Sunday morning and afternoon. Elevated Fire Weather potential over Southeast New Mexico and far west Texas on Sunday afternoon and early evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated. Please relay any information about observed severe weather to the NWS while following all local, state and CDC guidelines. This product, along with other watches, warnings, advisories, and statements issued by the National Weather Service Office in Midland, can be found on the internet at... https://weather.gov/midland
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crockett | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 8:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 44 min | |
| May 1, 2:45 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Culberson | 48 hr |
| May 1, 1:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell, Reagan | 45 min |
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.