Increasing westerly flow aloft due to a passing shortwave trough resulted in high winds in the Guadalupe Mountains.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Increasing westerly flow aloft due to a passing shortwave trough resulted in high winds in the Guadalupe 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 Oct 31, 10:42 PM MST, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1242 AM CDT MON NOV 1 2010 .DISCUSSION... && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH THE FORECAST WITH ABUNDANT HIGH CLOUDS. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA BEFORE SUNRISE WITH WIND BECOMING NORTHERLY AT 10KTS OR LESS. && PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 239 PM CDT SUN OCT 31 2010/ DISCUSSION... AFTERNOON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A VORT MAX MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS NEAR THE NE/KS BORDER WITHIN ZONAL FLOW THROUGH THE CENTRAL CONUS. OVER WEST TEXAS AND SE NM...A STREAM OF UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO SPREAD OVERHEAD FROM THE WEST SOUTHWEST FROM THE BAJA THROUGH NW TEXAS. AT THE SURFACE...A PACIFIC COLD FRONT IS NOW BEGINNING TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN. MEANWHILE...TO THE NORTH...ANOTHER COLD FRONT WAS PRESENT ACROSS THE PANHANDLE. WEAK PRESSURE RISES ARE CURRENTLY BEING OBSERVED OVER NW OK/PANHANDLE. AS THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED VORT MAX MOVES INTO THE MIDWEST AND DIFFUSES WITHIN THE CONFLUENT FLOW THERE THIS EVENING...ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH (CURRENTLY NEAR THE NORTHERN TIP OF ID) WILL DIVE SOUTH OVER THE ROCKIES. THE LATTER COLD FRONT WILL BE NUDGED SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE PERMIAN BASIN BY EARLY AFTERNOON TOMORROW AS A RESULT. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL JET ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE APPROACHING TROUGH TOMORROW WILL CONTINUE TO DIG THIS FEATURE SOUTHWARD THROUGH NW TEXAS BY LATE MONDAY MORNING. WE ARE ONLY EXPECTING A BRIEF INCREASE IN MID TO HIGH CLOUDS WITH THIS FEATURE BY TOMORROW EVENING AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN/WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS THROUGH THE LOWER TRANS PECOS NEAR THE BEST DIVERGENCE ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER JET. OUR AREA WILL REMAIN ON THE SUBSIDENCE SIDE OF THE PASSING WAVE AND A LACK OF SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE WILL KEEP ALMOST ALL POPS BELOW MENTIONABLE. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF SOME VIRGA TRIED TO DEVELOP NEAR THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...HOWEVER. MAX TEMPS WILL DROP INTO THE LOW 70S ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SE NEW MEXICO BEHIND THE FRONT TOMORROW...AND MID TO UPPER 70S ALONG THE PECOS RIVER VALLEY. SOUTH OF HERE...AREAS AHEAD OF THE FRONT SUCH AS THE RIO GRANDE RIVER VALLEY...BIG BEN AND EXTREME LOWER TRANS PECOS SHOULD CLIMB INTO AT LEAST THE LOW TO MID 80S BEFORE CAA TAKES PLACE LATER IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS THE POSITIVELY TILTED WAVE BECOMES CLOSED OVER EAST TX TUESDAY AFTERNOON...DEEP NORTHERLY FLOW WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST TX AND SE NM. CONTINUED CAA WILL RESULT IN EVEN COOLER TEMPS FOR TUESDAY. AVERAGE 850MB PROJECTED THERMAL FIELDS SUGGEST HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S FOR MOST OF THE REGION. SURFACE RIDGING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK AS A POTENT CANADIAN WAVE DIGS SOUTH INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST WED...WHILE A RIDGE AXIS REMAINS ANCHORED FROM NEAR SOCAL THROUGH THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. THEREFORE...WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE SEASONABLE TO NEAR SEASONABLE TEMPERATURE TREND THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY AS THICKNESSES ONLY INCREASE VERY SLOWLY WITH CONTINUED CAA/DEEPENING TROUGH ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE US AND REINFORCED SURFACE RIDGING OVER THE PLAINS. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 201 PM CDT SUN OCT 31 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-011915- 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- 201 PM CDT SUN OCT 31 2010 /101 PM MDT SUN OCT 31 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 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.
Sustained winds of 40 mph or greater funneled through Guadalupe Pass for several hours due to a passing shortwave trough, and strong mid level winds associated with it.
High winds occurred in the Guadalupe Mountains due to strong mid level winds at the base of a passing shortwave trough.
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