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Tornado Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

September 11, 1991El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 1991, 7:42 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 11, 1991, 7:42 PM MDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 1991, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, El Paso County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 32 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 00:00Z on 1991-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 641 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 00:00Z on 1991-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 7:26 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
TXZ050-120230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
725 PM MDT WED SEP 11 1991

AT 720 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST OF EL PASO
TEXAS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL MOVE INTO THE CITY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY
THE THUNDERSTORMS. PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS AND LOCALIZED
STREET FLOODING MAY BE E\XPECTED IN THE HEAVIER SHOWERS.

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.