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High Wind Watch 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 17, 2022, 2:43 AM CDT for Culberson County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2022, 2:43 AM CDT (07:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2022, 3:37 AM CDT
- 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 07:49 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 421 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
- 1719 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 17, 12:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 12:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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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.