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High Wind Watch 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Apr 24, 2024, 2:05 AM CDT for Culberson County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 25, 2024, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2024, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 25, 2024, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2024, 1:10 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Culberson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 4538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:30 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | Andrews, Brewster, Culberson, Gaines, Jeff Davis, Loving and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:10 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Culberson | 36 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 36 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Andrews, Brewster, Culberson, Gaines, Jeff Davis, Loving and 4 more | 33 hr |
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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.