Northeast winds increased to 40 mph or greater for several hours in Guadalupe Pass behind a strong cold front.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Northeast winds increased to 40 mph or greater for several hours in Guadalupe Pass behind a strong cold front.
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 Jan 11, 8:57 PM MST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 957 PM CST WED JAN 11 2012 .DISCUSSION... SEE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION... LATEST SFC OBS SHOW COLD FRONT HAS MADE IT THRU MOST OF THE CWA...W/GUSTY POST-FRONTAL CONDITIONS AT SEVERAL TERMINALS. EXPECT THESE WINDS TO SLACKEN BY OR SHORTLY AFTER ISSUANCE TIME. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT 24 HRS...W/SFC FLOW GOING LIGHT AND VARIABLE AFTER SUNRISE THURSDAY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 406 PM CST WED JAN 11 2012/ DISCUSSION... SEE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. AVIATION... LATEST SFC OBS SHOW COLD FRONT HAS JUST PASSED THRU KMAF...KICKING UP LITTLE BLDU AND MVFR CIGS...WHICH SHOULD DISSIPATE BY ISSUANCE TIME. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT 24 HRS...W/SFC FLOW GOING LIGHT AND VARIABLE AFTER SUNRISE THURSDAY. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 132 PM CST WED JAN 11 2012/ DISCUSSION... CURRENTLY ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THERE IS A UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS CURRENTLY OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. POST FRONTAL WINDS ARE AROUND 20 KNOTS SUSTAINED BEHIND THIS FRONT. THIS FRONT WILL ENTER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL SHIFT FROM THE WEST TO THE NORTH AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH AND WILL PICK UP AND GUST UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. THE AIR BEHIND THIS FRONT IS FAIRLY DRY...WITH DEWPOINTS AROUND 20. NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO FALL WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS FRONT. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN OVER TEXAS OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN FRIGID TEMPERATURES COME THURSDAY MORNING. UPPER TEENS TO MID 20S WILL BE SEEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME LOCATIONS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WHERE TEMPERATURES WILL STAY JUST ABOVE FREEZING. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THURSDAY WILL REMAIN PRETTY CHILLY...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES AT LEAST 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THERE WILL BE A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY. A WARMING TREND WILL START FRIDAY. A SHORTWAVE EMBEDDED IN THIS FLOW WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY. THE PREVIOUS MODEL RUN OF THE GFS DEVELOPED SOME PRECIPITATION WITH THIS FEATURE...BUT THE CURRENT MODEL RUN HAS BACKED OFF THE PRECIP QUITE A BIT. THIS FALLS IN LINE WITH THE OTHER MODELS...SO HAVE KEPT PRECIP OUT OF FORECAST. HOWEVER...MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA DURING THIS TIME. BY SUNDAY UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL MIGRATE INTO THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES...AND THE WARMING TREND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY AND INTO MONDAY. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE IN THE 60S THOSE DAYS. THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MAKE ITS WAY ACROSS THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES LATE MONDAY OR EARLY TUESDAY. THERE WILL BE SOME BREEZY WESTERLY WINDS AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE MONDAY. THE HIGHER MAGNITUDE HEIGHT FALLS WILL STAY WELL TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA...SO HAVE LEFT THE FORECAST DRY AT THIS TIME DURING THIS TIMEFRAME. THERE WILL BE SOME INCREASED CLOUD COVER...WHICH WILL RESULT IN HIGH TEMPERATURES BEING A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN MONDAY. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE CWA WEDNESDAY MORNING...COOLING THE TEMPERATURES FURTHER THAT DAY. && .MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 44
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 129 PM CST WED JAN 11 2012 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-121930- 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- 129 PM CST WED JAN 11 2012 /1229 PM MST WED JAN 11 2012/ 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...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
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sustained northeast winds of 40-44 mph occurred in Guadalupe Pass.
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