A cold front moving southward across west Texas, resulted in high wind gusts across portions of the Guadalupe and Davis Mountains.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
A cold front moving southward across west Texas, resulted in high wind gusts across portions of the Guadalupe and Davis Mountains.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 16, 6:00 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 600 AM CST WED JAN 16 2008 .AVIATION... STRONG COLD FRONT BEGINNING TO WORK INTO AREA. AS OF 12Z FRONT WAS NEAR A LBB TO HOB LINE. EXPECTING FROPA MAF AND CNM AROUND 15Z... PEQ AND INK 16-17Z... FST CLOSER TO 18Z. NORTH WIND SHOULD BE FAIRLY GUSTY AS GOOD PUSH BEHIND FRONT... CURRENTLY GUSTING 30-40KTS ACROSS TX PANHANDLE AND INTO SOUTHERN KS. NOT EXPECTING GUSTS THAT HIGH FOR LOCAL TAF SITES... BUT WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS. NO LOW CLOUDS IN THE AREA... VFR FORECAST THROUGH PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 344 AM CST WED JAN 16 2008/ DISCUSSION... A COOL PERIOD IS ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE FORECAST CYCLE AS UPPER LEVEL TROUGHINESS IS FORECAST TO COVER MUCH OF THE NATION THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PLUNGE SOUTH TODAY AS THE NORTHERN STREAM AMPLIFIES. 3 HOURS PRESSURE RISES OF 3 MILLIBARS ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND NORMAL WIND COMPONENT TO THE FRONT SHOULD ALLOW FRONT TO PLUNGE AS FAR SOUTH AND WEST AS THE MOUNTAINS TODAY...PREFER TO KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW GUIDANCE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. LOOKING FOR MUCH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND THURSDAY AS THE COLD AIR CURRENTLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND CANADA PLUNGE SOUTHWARD BEHIND THE NORTHERN STREAM TROUGH WITH A SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE. THE COLD AIR WILL CHANNEL THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS BY TONIGHT AND MAY FLIRT WITH HIGH WIND CRITERIA OVERNIGHT. STILL DO NOT SEE A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR SNOW DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. THE COLD AIR WILL BE PRETTY DRY AND THE UPPER LEVEL FORCING WITH THE SPLIT FLOW ALOFT IS NOT IMPRESSIVE. THE BEST SHOT OF VERY LIGHT SNOW STILL APPEARS TO BE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY WHEN A SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE IN THE AMPLIFYING FLOW MOVES SOUTHEASTWARD BEHIND THE SURFACE COLD FRONT...CONTINUED A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY ACROSS THAT AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE SOME FRIDAY AS THE SURFACE HIGH MOVES EAST BUT TEMPERATURES WILL STILL RUN SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY AS ANOTHER REINFORCING SHOT OF COLDER AIR HEADS SOUTH AS THE EASTWARD MOVING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AMPLIFIES. SUNDAY COULD BE THE WARMEST DAY IN THE FORECAST AS SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL WINDS RETURN IN A MORE ZONAL FLOW ALOFT. FORECAST CHALLENGE APPEARS SIGNIFICANT BEYOND SUNDAY AS THE FLOW ALOFT TURNS SLIGHTLY SOUTHWEST. AT THE SAME TIME VERY COLD AIR WILL BE HEADING SOUTH ACROSS THE PLAINS AS THE FLOW ALOFT AMPLIFIES AGAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER OF STATES. PREFER THE QUICKER GFS40 FRONTAL PASSAGE MONDAY DUE TO STRENGTH OF THE COLD AIR AND PRESSURE RISES BEHIND THE FRONT DESPITE ZONAL FLOW. WITH LOW CLOUDS ANTICIPATED BEHIND THE FRONT TEMPERATURES MAY NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE 30S MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ACROSS MANY AREAS WITH LIGHT FREEZING PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE. THE 00Z WEDNESDAY MEXMAF MOS GUIDANCE HAS YET TO PICK UP ON THIS SHALLOW COLD AIR INTRUSION DAY 5 AND BEYOND DESPITE ITS GRAPHICAL OUTPUT. TEMPERATURES MAY NEED TO BE LOWERED SIGNIFICANTLY BY NEXT MONDAY IF FUTURE RUNS CONTINUE TO INDICATE THIS POSSIBLE SCENARIO. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 419 AM CST WED JAN 16 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-171030- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR- REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA- PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 419 AM CST WED JAN 16 2008 /319 AM MST WED JAN 16 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND MAY RESULT IN GUSTY WINDS THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TONIGHT. NORTHWEST WINDS MAY APPROACH 30 TO 40 MPH LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Northeast winds behind a cold front gusted to above high wind criteria during the morning hours of January 16.
Sustained winds late Wednesday into the early morning hours on Thursday reached high wind criteria. A peak sustained wind of 45 mph was reported just before midnight at Guadalupe Pass.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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