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Blowing Dust Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this blowing dust warning at Mar 4, 2025, 10:08 AM CST for 24 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2025, 10:08 AM CST (16:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2025, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
All 26 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 386 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
- 1868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blowing dust warning 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 blowing dust warning went out at Mar 4, 5:19 AM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 5:19 AM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 34 min |
| Mar 4, 10:42 AM CST | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin, Mitchell | 93 min |
| Mar 4, 11:36 AM CST | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 84 min |
| Mar 4, 11:41 AM CST | Dust Storm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Presidio, Terrell | 94 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.