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High Wind Watch 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 31, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 1, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2025, 1:59 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Brewster County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 5507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 Mar 31, 12:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 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 31, 3:25 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 18 more | 43 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:59 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Culberson | 38 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:59 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Culberson, Dawson, Ector and 13 more | 32 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Texas, 2025High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2025Every high wind watch in 2025
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.