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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

May 17, 1990Brewster County, Presidio County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1990, 8:28 PM CDT for Brewster County, Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1990, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1990, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brewster County, TX, Presidio 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 502 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
4.6

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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
May 17, 8:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEPZBrewster, Presidio3 hr
May 17, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZBrewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio2 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.