Sustained northeast winds channeling through Guadalupe Pass reached high wind thresholds during the morning hours of January 24.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Sustained northeast winds channeling through Guadalupe Pass reached high wind thresholds during the morning hours of January 24.
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 23, 10:29 PM MST, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1129 PM CST WED JAN 23 2008
.AVIATION...
A COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM NEAR A CARLSBAD TO WINK TO BIG LAKE LINE
AT 0530Z/24. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH RAPIDLY SOUTH WITH
NORTHEAST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH EXPECTED BEHIND IT. EXPECTING SOME
MVFR CEILINGS TO DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT WITH STRONG COOLING TAKING
PLACE. WILL CARRY A PROBABILITY FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION DURING THE
15-21Z TIME FRAME MOST TAF SITES TODAY AS A DISTURBANCE MOVES OVER
THE AREA IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT.
&&
.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 2 PM THURSDAY TO 5 AM MST FRIDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES...CENTRAL LEA COUNTY...NORTHERN LEA
COUNTY...SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM MST
THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF
EDDY COUNTY.
TX...WINTER STORM WATCH FROM 3 PM THURSDAY TO 6 AM CST FRIDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES...ANDREWS...BORDEN...CRANE...DAWSON...
ECTOR...GAINES...GLASSCOCK...HOWARD...LOVING...MARTIN...
MIDLAND...MITCHELL...REAGAN...REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS
PECOS...SCURRY...UPTON...WARD...WINKLER.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM MST
THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.
&&
67HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 247 PM CST WED JAN 23 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-242100- 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- 247 PM CST WED JAN 23 2008 /147 PM MST WED JAN 23 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WINTRY MIX OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SNOW...WHICH WILL OCCASIONALLY MIX WITH SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ABOVE 6500 FEET...WHILE UP TO AN INCH OF SLEET OR SNOW ACCUMULATION WILL BE POSSIBLE BELOW 6500 FEET. WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND THE PERMIAN BASIN THURSDAY NIGHT. IT NOW APPEARS PRECIPITATION WILL MOSTLY BE IN THE FORM OF FREEZING RAIN ACROSS THESE LOCATIONS THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING... ALTHOUGH AN OCCASIONAL MIX OF SLEET OR SNOW IS POSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS BY FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND THE PERMIAN BASIN SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A POTENTIAL WINTER STORM THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. SPOTTER NETWORKS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY IMPACTS AND ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND. 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
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sustained northeast winds of 40-45 mph persisted through Guadalupe Pass for a good portion of the morning hours.
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