Strong mid level westerly winds sagged south across west Texas and resulted in high winds in the higher elevations of the Davis Mountains.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Strong mid level westerly winds sagged south across west Texas and resulted in high winds in the higher elevations of the Davis 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 29, 6:15 PM CST, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 615 PM CST MON NOV 29 2010 .UPDATE... SEE PUBLIC AND FIRE WEATHER DISCUSSION BELOW. && .DISCUSSION... WILL LET THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND THE WIND ADVISORY FOR EDDY COUNTY PLAINS...VAN HORN HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR AND MARFA PLATEAU EXPIRE AS WINDS CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE UNFAVORABLE. TWEAKED SKY GRID THIS EVENING. NO OTHER CHANGES. UPDATED PUBLIC PRODUCTS TO BE SENT SHORTLY. && .FIRE WEATHER... WILL LET THE RED FLAG WARNING EXPIRE IN THE PERMIAN BASIN AS 20 FOOT WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW 20 MPH. RH/S WILL INCREASE TO GREATER THAN 15 PERCENT THIS EVENING WITH NOCTURNAL COOLING AND MOISTENING DUE TO A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. UPDATED FIRE WEATHER PRODUCTS TO BE SENT SHORTLY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 604 PM CST MON NOV 29 2010/ DISCUSSION... SEE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT AREA TAF SITES THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. WESTERLY WINDS WILL BRIEFLY DECREASE THIS EVENING. AS THIS OCCURS... BLOWING DUST WILL SUBSIDE...BRINGING AN INCREASE IN VISIBILITIES. THE RESPITE WILL BE BRIEF AS A COLD FRONT BRINGS GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS TO THE AREA THIS EVENING. CAN/T RULE OUT SOME PATCHY BLOWING DUST NEAR PLOWED GROUND...BUT THIS SHOULD BE RATHER LOCALIZED. WINDS SHOULD FINALLY BE ON THE DECREASE LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS FROM THE NORTHWEST. MID-LEVEL CLOUD COVER WILL REMAIN INTACT THROUGH THIS EVENING...BUT SHOULD BE ON THE DECREASE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 204 PM CST MON NOV 29 2010/ DISCUSSION... COOL TEMPERATURES WILL AFFECT THE REGION INITIALLY...BUT READINGS WILL RISE ABOVE NORMAL AFTER MIDWEEK. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL HEAD FOR THE AREA NEXT WEEKEND...BUT IT/S SOUTHWARD PROGRESS IS UNCERTAIN. HOWEVER...BY EARLY NEXT WEEK A STRONG COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE REGION AND SEND READINGS WELL BELOW NORMAL. RAIN CHANCES WILL BE NEAR ZERO FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS... ASIDE FROM THE ISOLATED RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS EXPECTED OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS AND NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN THIS EVENING. APPRECIABLE RAIN OR SNOW IS NOT EXPECTED. AN UA TROUGH BISECTED THE CONUS THIS AFTERNOON...EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL CANADA TO NEW MEXICO. THE BASE OF THIS TROUGH WAS TRAVERSING SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO WITH ASSOCIATED STRONG MID LEVEL WINDS AFFECTING THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. THIS SAME BELT OF STRONGER MID LEVEL WINDS WERE ALSO OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...BUT HAVE NOT MIXED DOWN TO THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS SO FAR. LESSER...BUT STILL BREEZY...SURFACE WINDS WERE OCCURRING OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AS A SURFACE RIDGE WAS BUILDING EASTWARD INTO THOSE AREAS. ANOTHER COLD FRONT...SPORTING A MORE POLAR AIRMASS...WAS DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. IT APPEARS THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE UPPER TROUGH IS A LITTLE SLOWER THAN MODEL PROGNOSTICATIONS YESTERDAY. HENCE SURFACE WINDS HAVE NOT INCREASED MUCH OVER WEST TEXAS. STILL THINK WE WILL SEE THE WINDIER CONDITIONS SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA...JUST A LITTLE LATER. WILL LEAVE THE HIGH WIND WARNING GOING IN BOTH THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS UNTIL 30/00Z...DESPITE THE DELAY IN STRONGER WINDS MIXING DOWN INTO THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. STILL THINK WE WILL SEE AN APPRECIABLE RISE IN WIND SPEEDS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS FROM SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTH THROUGH THE MARFA PLATEAU AS THE SAID SURFACE RIDGE BEGINS TO PUSH INTO THE AREA MORE AGGRESSIVELY. THEREFORE...WILL LEAVE THE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 30/00Z. FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS ARE ELEVATED AND WILL ELABORATE MORE IN THE FIRE WEATHER SECTION BELOW. THE SAID UPPER TROUGH WILL PASS OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...THEN DEPART THE REGION TUESDAY. THE SAID POLAR FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT...COOLING LOW TEMPS BELOW NORMAL AGAIN. SINCE LOWER HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES WILL LINGER OVER THE AREA TUESDAY... AND THE SURFACE RIDGE WILL SLIDE OVER THE AREA...HIGHS TUESDAY WILL ALSO BE BELOW NORMAL. WINDS WILL REMAIN LIGHT...AND DRY AIR WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION...SO LOWS WEDNESDAY WILL ALSO BE BELOW NORMAL. NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL THEN PREVAIL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE ZONAL. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL BOTH BE WELL ABOVE NORMAL. THEREAFTER...TEMPERATURES WILL DEPEND ON HOW MUCH A SHORTWAVE TROUGH AMPLIFIES OVER THE NORTHERN U.S. PLAINS AND MIDWEST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS THIS WILL DETERMINE HOW FAST AND FAR SOUTH THE NEXT FRONT WILL GO. FOR NOW...HAVE GONE WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES SATURDAY BEFORE BRINGING A COLD FRONT INTO THE NORTHERN THIRD OR SO OF THE CWA SUNDAY. THINK ONCE THE FRONT DROPS THROUGH THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY THERE WILL BE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE. 67 FIRE WEATHER... WESTERLY 20 FT WINDS HAVE GENERALLY INCREASED TO 20-25 MPH...WITH A FEW GUSTS OF 30-35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. DESPITE A COOLER AIRMASS IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION...VERY DRY AIR/DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID SINGLE DIGITS WAS SPREADING FROM THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN AND UPPER TRANS PECOS REGION THIS AFTERNOON...CAUSING RH VALUES TO FALL BELOW 15 PCT. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE UPPER TRANS PECOS AND MOST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...AND THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST. LOCALIZED RED FLAG CONDITIONS MAY ALSO BE MET OVER FAR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO FIRE ZONE...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF CARLSBAD THIS AFTERNOON. 21 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BIG SPRING TX 28 53 25 63 / 0 0 0 0 CARLSBAD NM 25 54 19 67 / 10 0 0 0 DRYDEN TX 33 59 27 65 / 0 0 0 0 FORT STOCKTON TX 26 54 31 68 / 0 0 0 0 GUADALUPE PASS TX 23 46 28 51 / 0 0 0 0 HOBBS NM 21 52 22 63 / 10 0 0 0 MARFA TX 16 50 9 60 / 0 0 0 0 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT TX 24 53 23 62 / 0 0 0 0 ODESSA TX 26 54 26 61 / 0 0 0 0 WINK TX 24 56 19 65 / 0 0 0 0 && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 631 PM CST MON NOV 29 2010 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-010045- 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- 631 PM CST MON NOV 29 2010 /531 PM MST MON NOV 29 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STRONGER GUSTS MAY APPROACH 55 MPH. THESE WIND SPEEDS WILL BE ON THE DECREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT. ELSEWHERE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 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.
A few high wind gusts occurred in the higher elevations of the Davis Mountains as a belt of stronger mid level winds sagged south across west Texas.
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