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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX

October 2, 1995Culberson County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 2:29 AM CDT for Culberson County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 2, 1995, 2:29 AM CDT (07:29 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 1995, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Culberson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KELP 020730 RRA
SVRELP
TXC109-020815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
129 AM MDT (229 AM CDT) MON OCT 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM MDT (315 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN CULBERSON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
SOUTH OF THE NEW MEXICO -TEXAS STATE LINE EAST OF HIGHWAY 62/180 AND
ANOTHER SEVERE STORM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PINE SPRINGS. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Oct 2, 2:03 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

TXZ056-057-058-020900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
101 AM MDT (201 AM CDT) MON OCT 2 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER FAR WEST TEXAS...

AT 1250 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN HUDSPETH AND CULBERSON COUNTIES
OF FAR WEST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DELL CITY AND
23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CORNUDAS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY
RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. BRIEF HEAVY
RAINFALL MAY PRODUCE RUNNING WATER IN NORMALLY DRY DRAINAGES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Culberson	51 min
Oct 2, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Culberson	44 min

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.