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Tornado Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX

June 9, 1995Brewster County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1995, 9:34 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1995, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3850 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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 100234
TORELP
TXC043-100315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
834 PM MDT (934 PM CDT) FRI JUN 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM MDT (1015 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MARATHON TEXAS IN NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY. THIS STORM REMAINS NEARLY
STATIONARY AND HAS STRENGTHENED DURING THE PAST 10 MINUTES.
 
RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR...AND FLOODING IS LIKELY IN LOW LYING AREAS.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIORL ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningEPZBrewster39 min
Jun 9, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningEPZBrewster28 min
Jun 9, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningEPZBrewster30 min
Jun 10, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZJeff Davis31 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.