As a strong cold front pushed through the area, strong northeast winds channelled through Guadalupe Pass.
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.
As a strong cold front pushed through the area, strong northeast winds channelled through Guadalupe Pass.
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 Mar 22, 10:58 PM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1258 AM CDT SUN MAR 23 2008
.AVIATION...
VFR CEILINGS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS OVER ALL TAF
SITES...WHILE EAST NORTHEAST WINDS WILL LIKELY INCREASE TO AT
LEAST 20KT WITH GUSTS OVER 30KT POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE MAINLY FROM KMAF EASTWARD THROUGH THIS MORNING. RAIN MAY
MIX WITH SNOW BETWEEN 23/12Z AND 23/18Z OVER ALL BUT KPEQ AND
KFST AS MVFR CEILINGS BECOME MORE PREVALENT. IFR CEILINGS COULD
ALSO AFFECT MOST TAF SITES...GENERALLY BETWEEN 23/15Z AND 23/21Z.
THESE LOWER CEILINGS SHOULD BEGIN TO LIFT/DISSIPATE AROUND OR
AFTER 24/00Z ALONG WITH LIGHTER WINDS.
&&
.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...NONE.
TX...HIGH WIND WARNING FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM MDT SUNDAY FOR
THE FOLLOWING ZONES...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.
&&
67HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 247 PM CDT SAT MAR 22 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-232000- 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 CDT SAT MAR 22 2008 /147 PM MDT SAT MAR 22 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL THEN SPREAD ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND MOST OF WEST TEXAS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A FEW STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR AREAS MAINLY EAST OF THE PECOS RIVER. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. LOCALLY STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS NEAR 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. MOUNTAIN GAPS AND PASSES WILL BE FAVORED FOR THESE WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 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
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 102 AM CDT SUN MAR 23 2008 TXZ050-230700- ANDREWS- 102 AM CDT SUN MAR 23 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FLOREY AT 102 AM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. GUSTY WINDSTO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
138 AM CDT SUN MAR 23 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0125 AM HAIL 7 ESE ANDREWS 32.28N 102.44W
03/23/2008 E0.88 INCH ANDREWS TX PUBLIC
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MEFFERSO1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Northeast winds behind a cold front channelled through Gaudalupe Pass and produced high winds for a couple hours.
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