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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX

July 10, 1986El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1986, 5:46 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1986, 5:46 PM MDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1986, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 16 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 538 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1196 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 5:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZEl Paso4 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.