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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS El Paso, TX

October 2, 1995Culberson County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 3:39 AM CDT for Culberson County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 1995, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 1995, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
51 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, 8.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1995-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1995-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
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

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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, 1 hour 36 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 2, 2:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZCulberson46 min
Oct 2, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZCulberson44 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.