Name: High Wind in Texas, May 19, 2010
Start: 2010-05-19T11:51
End: 2010-05-19T12:51
Location: Texas

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.

Gap winds through Guadalupe Pass surpassed 40 mph sustained for a couple of hours beneath westerly flow aloft.

What forecasters said that day

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 May 19, 10:09 AM MST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 10:09 AM MST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1209 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

.DISCUSSION...
LATEST AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW.

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS.  WESTERLY
WINDS OF 15 TO 20KT...AND GUSTS TO AROUND 25KT AT TIMES...WILL
DECREASE TO AROUND 10KT AROUND SUNSET.  A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
INTO THE AREA EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...BUT NORTHERLY WINDS BEHIND IT
WILL LIKELY TURN TO THE EAST BY LATE MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON AS
IT WILL BE SHUNTED EASTWARD.  67

&&

.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NP/LINCOLN NF/LNZ.

     HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY.

TX...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM CDT /8 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE
     FOLLOWING ZONES... DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA...GUADALUPE
     MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR.

     HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES... GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 11:07 AM MST, 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
107 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-201815-
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-
107 PM CDT WED MAY 19 2010 /1207 PM MDT WED MAY 19 2010/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

STRONG...WEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TODAY.  A HIGH WIND
WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.

WARM...DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
CONDITIONS TO PERSIST OVER THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...VAN HORN AND
HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR AND THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS INTO THIS EVENING.  A
RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING.

.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

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Guadalupe Mountains of Culberson County

When: May 19, 11:51 AM MST to 12:51 PM MST
Where: Guadalupe Mountains of Culberson County forecast zone
Measured: 37 kt (43 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: ASOS

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2010 Every state in 2010 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, May 2010

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 223294.