Cold air funneled through Guadalupe Pass behind a cold front with northeast winds staying at or above 40 mph for an extended period of time.
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.
Cold air funneled through Guadalupe Pass behind a cold front with northeast winds staying at or above 40 mph for an extended period of time.
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 Feb 2, 5:01 PM MST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 601 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2010 .DISCUSSION... SEE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION... WIDESPREAD STRATUS IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE ACROSS MOST OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS EVENING. CIGS AND VSBYS SHOULD CONTINUE TO LOWER THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH WIDESPREAD LIFR TO VLIFR CONDITIONS DEVELOPING AROUND 05Z AND CONTINUING THROUGH MUCH OF TOMORROW MORNING. WE ALSO EXPECT WIDESPREAD RAIN SHOWERS TO SPREAD OVER THE AREA FROM SOUTH TO NORTH TONIGHT...AND PERSIST MUCH OF TOMORROW. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 240 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2010/ DISCUSSION... FOG HAS LIFTED A BIT TODAY BUT WILL PROBABLY SET IN AGAIN LATE THIS EVENING BEFORE BEFORE LIFTING AS THE RAIN BEGINS EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. CONTINUED TO INCREASE POPS AS IT LOOKS PRETTY CERTAIN THE PERMIAN BASIN CAN EXPECT ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OVER AN INCH. RAINFALL TOTALS MAY NOT BE QUITE AS HIGH WEST OF THE PECOS BUT EVERYONE SHOULD SEE SOME MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION BEFORE THIS IS ALL OVER. CURRENTLY AM NOT EXPECTING ANY WINTRY PRECIP THOUGH THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS AND NORTHERN LEA COUNTY COULD SEE THE RAIN MIX WITH SNOW BY THURSDAY MORNING. ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER WILL KEEP THE DIURNAL TREND TO A MINIMUM THROUGH THURSDAY. FRIDAY WILL BE WARMER THOUGH THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN COULD REMAIN CLOUDY AND COOL AS A WEAK FRONT MOVES THROUGH. MODELS ARE SHOWING STRONG LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ADVECTION OCCURRING THIS WEEKEND WHICH WILL KEEP THE EASTERN BASIN COOL UNTIL THE NEXT FRONT ARRIVES ON MONDAY. TIMING OF THIS FEATURE IS A BIT UNCERTAIN THOUGH IT SHOULD BRING ANOTHER SHOT OF COLD AIR MAINTAINING OUR COOL WINTER WE HAVE HAD THUS FAR. THE MAX TEMP ON MONDAY WILL DEPEND ON THE TIMING OF THE FRONT AND GENERALLY UNDERCUT GUIDANCE FROM MONDAY NIGHT ON. HENNIG && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 223 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-032030- 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- 223 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2010 /123 PM MST TUE FEB 2 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOG IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OR REDEVELOP OVERNIGHT...MAINLY EAST OF A CARLSBAD...TO ORLA...TO FORT STOCKTON...TO SANDERSON LINE. VISIBILITES WILL DROP AS LOW AS ONE HALF OF A MILE AT TIMES...WITH ISOLATED AREAS OF ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY 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 44
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Northeast winds of 40 mph or greater persisted through Guadalupe Pass for nearly 18 hours. Although no gusts of 58 mph or higher occurred, sustained winds ranged from 40 to 48 mph for most of the mentioned period.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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