High Wind, Guadalupe Mountains of Culberson County
- When
- May 9, 10:34 AM MST to 2:51 PM MST
- Where
- Guadalupe Mountains of Culberson County forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- ASOS
High Wind in Texas, May 9, 2015
An approaching upper trough resulted in high winds in the Guadalupe Mountains.
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.
An approaching upper trough resulted in high winds in the Guadalupe Mountains.
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 9, 10:22 AM MST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 10:22 AM MST, 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1222 PM CDT Sat May 9 2015
.AVIATION...
18Z TAF issuance
VFR conditions expected through Sunday with the dryline remaining
east of the TAF sites. Westerly winds will be gusty this afternoon
before decreasing after sunset.
&&
.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...NONE.
TX...HIGH WIND WARNING until 8 PM MDT this evening FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES... Guadalupe Mountains.
&&
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http://weather.gov/midlandHazardous weather outlook, May 9, 6:57 AM MST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 857 AM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-101400- 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- 857 AM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015 /757 AM MDT SAT MAY 9 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY...MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEF...HEAVY RAINFALL. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT. THE THUNDERSTORM FOCUS WILL SHIFT TO THE LOWER TRANS PECOS TONIGHT. STRONG WEST WINDS ARE ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS TODAY. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 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.
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
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- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Texas, May 9 to 11, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Arkansas, May 9 to 12, 2015
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 9 to 11, 2015
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 9 to 10, 2015
- Rip Current in Puerto Rico, May 9, 2015
- Rip Current in Florida, May 9, 2015
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 9, 2015
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 9, 2015
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, May 9 to 10, 2015
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Colorado, May 9, 2015
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, May 9 to 10, 2015
More
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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: 569357.