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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

May 26, 1995Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 12:58 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 12:58 PM MDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 1:30 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hudspeth County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 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 261858
SVRELP
TXC229-261930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
1258 PM MDT FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN HUDSPETH COUNTY
 
AT 1250 PM MDT (150 PM CDT) MIDLAND DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH CENTRAL HUDSPETH COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF CORNUDAS.
A SPOTTER IN CORNUDAS REPORTED MARBLE-SIZED HAIL. THIS CELL IS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN SOUTHERN OTERO COUNTY BY 130 PM
MDT.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED @AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, May 26, 12:20 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ055-056-057-NMZ025-032-262215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
1218 PM MDT (118 PM CDT) FRI MAY 26 1995

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN
NEW MEXICO...

AT 1210 PM MDT (110 PM CDT) THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS
FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. RADAR SHOWED STRONG CELLS 20 MIL
EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF EL PASO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THUDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONITINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING IN THE EL PASO AREA AND THROUGHOUT FAR WEST TEXAS.

IF YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT IN FAR WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING...KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 1:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZCulberson26 min
May 26, 2:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZJeff Davis47 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.