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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS El Paso, TX

May 22, 1992El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1992, 7:21 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1992, 7:21 PM MDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1992, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 390 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 1992-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZEl Paso38 min

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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.