Strong mid level winds continued over the area, but only mixed down into the higher elevations of the Guadalupe Mountains.
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.
Strong mid level winds continued over the area, but only mixed down into the higher elevations of 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 Nov 16, 4:35 PM MST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 535 PM CST TUE NOV 16 2010 .DISCUSSION... SEE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION... GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS TAF PERIOD. GUSTY WINDS ARE ALREADY SUBSIDING AND WILL DROP BELOW 15KTS AT ALL TERMINALS BY 03Z. A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH CNM AND HOB AROUND 10Z WILL MAKE IT THROUGH ALL TAF SITES BY 18Z SHIFTING THE WINDS INITIALLY TO THE NORTHWEST AND GUSTING BEFORE DIMINISHING AND BECOMING MORE NORTHERLY OR NORTHEASTERLY. HENNIG && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 208 PM CST TUE NOV 16 2010/ DISCUSSION... DOWNSLOPE WINDS THIS AFTERNOON CONTRIBUTING TO RELATIVELY WARM TEMPS AND DRY CONDITIONS DESPITE FRONTAL PASSAGE LAST NIGHT. W WINDS DO LOOK TO STAY UP SOME OVERNIGHT FOR MOST OF THE AREA...THUS IT WILL BE WARMER WED MORNING. STRONG SHRTWV TROF WILL MOVE SEWD INTO OKLA WED PUSHING A FRONT S THRU SE NM/W TX WED MORNING/AFTERNOON. LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON WINDS ACRS PB WILL BE ON THE WINDY SIDE FROM THE N...BUT WINDIEST AND LASTING THE LONGEST IN THE NE CWFA WHERE BETTER MSLP GRADIENT WILL BE FOUND. 85H TEMPS NEAR 10C WEDNESDAY PM SUGGEST HIGHS WILL STILL BE IN THE 60S. WILL OPT TO GO TOWARD THE COOLER GFS OR JUST UNDERCUT...ESPECIALLY FROM MAF N AS 7H TEMPS ARE SEEN TO COOL WITH PASSING TROF. WILL CONTINUE THIS TREND INTO THE OVERNIGHT AND EXPECT THAT GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING WILL OCCUR THUR MORNING...THUS FAVOR COOLER GFS WITH A FREEZE MOST FOR AREAS. WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR HARD FREEZE POTENTIAL IN SCURRY...MITCHELL...HOWARD COUNTIES THURSDAY MORNING. MID LEVELS BECOME MORE WLY THURSDAY SIGNALING WARM-UP PER THERMAL RIDGE/LEE TROF. THIS WILL BE THE GENERAL IDEA FRI-MON WITH 85H THERMAL RIDGE EXTENDING FROM THE TRANS PECOS REGION NEWD INTO SE NM AND THE W-NW PB. 85H TEMPS FROM MID TEENS TO N20C AT TIMES WILL PUSH TEMPS WELL ABOVE NORMAL. ESPECIALLY WITH DOWNSLOPE WINDS POSSIBLE FOR A FEW HRS IN THE AFTERNOON ACRS THE WRN CWFA. SUN-TUE MORNINGS HIER DWPNTS WILL CREEP INTO AT LEAST ERN 1/3 OF CWFA SO OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL TREND UP THEN. COLD AIR LOOKS TO BE IN THE CNTRL PLAINS TUE WITH ECMWF FARTHEST S...LEADING EDGE INTO S PLAINS. SO ATTP WON/T REFLECT MUCH CHANGE BUT WILL KEEP LOOKING TO THE N BY MIDDLE OF NEXT WEAK TO SEE HOW CLOSE COLD AIR WILL BE. FIRE WEATHER... A LOCATIONS IN THE WRN PB SHOWING NEAR RF CONDITIONS THIS PM BUT WILL REMAIN LOCAL IN NATURE. FIRE WX CONCERNS STILL LOOK TO INCREASE ACRS SE NM/GDP MTNS/UPPER TRANS PECOS/W-NW PB FRI-TUE. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1234 PM CST TUE NOV 16 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-171845- 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- 1234 PM CST TUE NOV 16 2010 /1134 AM MST TUE NOV 16 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong mid level winds mixed down into the higher elevations of the Guadalupe Mountains.
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