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Fire Weather Watch 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 14, 2021Culberson County, Texas; 4 counties in New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this fire weather watch at Mar 14, 2021, 2:21 PM CDT for Culberson County, Texas; 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 15, 2021, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2021, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2021, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2021, 3:49 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Culberson County, TX

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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 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 14, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 1:57 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 14, 10:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 10:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 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, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	37 min
Mar 13, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	48 min
Mar 13, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan, Upton	45 min
Mar 13, 6:21 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Pecos, Upton	39 min
Mar 13, 6:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	39 min
Mar 13, 6:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	50 min
Mar 13, 7:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Reagan	43 min
Mar 13, 7:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	65 min
Mar 14, 1:56 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 13 more	19 hr
Mar 14, 4:11 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos, Presidio and 3 more	17 hr
Mar 14, 1:47 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	MAF	Culberson	24 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.