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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS El Paso, TX

May 29, 1995Brewster County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 4:17 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 616 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 278 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
616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZBrewster48 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.