Strong southwesterly flow aloft resulted in high winds in the Guadalupe and Davis 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 southwesterly flow aloft resulted in high winds in the Guadalupe and 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 Mar 12, 10:38 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
1038 PM CST SAT MAR 12 2016
.AVIATION...
06Z TAF issuance
Pacific cold front moving across the area currently will bring
gusty westerly winds overnight and much of Sunday. Winds could
gust to near 30 kts before decreasing during the late afternoon
hours. VFR conditions will prevail.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Big Spring 65 49 81 46 / 0 0 0 0
Carlsbad 82 45 80 45 / 0 0 0 0
Dryden 82 49 87 48 / 0 0 0 0
Fort Stockton 83 50 79 52 / 0 0 0 0
Guadalupe Pass 75 39 67 44 / 0 0 0 0
Hobbs 77 48 74 44 / 0 0 0 0
Marfa 79 34 73 30 / 0 0 0 0
Midland Intl Airport 78 48 81 46 / 0 0 0 0
Odessa 77 49 81 47 / 0 0 0 0
Wink 82 49 82 44 / 0 0 0 0
&&
.MAF Watches/Warnings/Advisories...
NM...Fire Weather Watch from Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening
for Guadalupe Mountains.
High Wind Watch from Monday afternoon through Monday evening for
Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County.
TX...Fire Weather Watch from Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening
for Davis/Apache Mountains Area-Guadalupe Mountains-Van
Horn and Highway 54 Corridor.
High Wind Watch from Monday afternoon through late Monday night
for Guadalupe Mountains.
Wind Advisory until 7 AM CDT Sunday for Big Bend Area-
Davis/Apache Mountains Area-Marfa Plateau.
&&
29HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1042 PM CST SAT MAR 12 2016 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-140445- 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- 1042 PM CST SAT MAR 12 2016 /942 PM MST SAT MAR 12 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL IMPACT THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...MARFA PLATEAU...AND BIG BEND AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER IS ALSO POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY AND A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS...DAVIS AND APACHE MOUNTAINS...AND THE VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR AREA FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. HIGH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AGAIN ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...A HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. .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
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
McDonald Observatory recorded several gusts from the southwest over 60 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2016
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: 616721, 616725, 616722.