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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 13, 20219 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this fire weather watch at Mar 13, 2021, 3:41 AM CST for 9 counties in Texas; 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 14, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2021, 3:41 AM CST (09:41 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 14, 2021, 4:11 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Brewster County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:43 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 566 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -2.4

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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 Mar 13, 3:14 AM CST, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 3:14 AM CST, 27 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
Mar 13, 3:41 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves	16 hr
Mar 13, 1:27 PM CST	High Wind Watch	MAF	Culberson	12 hr
Mar 13, 2:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Crane, Ector	49 min
Mar 13, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	51 min
Mar 13, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton	40 min
Mar 13, 3:39 PM CST	Dust Storm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Ector, Martin, Midland, Upton	51 min
Mar 13, 3:53 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Dawson	52 min
Mar 13, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland, Upton	52 min
Mar 13, 4:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	50 min
Mar 13, 4:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Borden	46 min
Mar 13, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland	47 min
Mar 13, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Reagan, Upton	49 min
Mar 13, 5:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	38 min
Mar 13, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	46 min
Mar 13, 5:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	44 min
Mar 13, 5:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	42 min

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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.