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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX

July 23, 1996Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1996, 7:47 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1996, 7:47 PM MDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1996, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, El Paso County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 332 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 697 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
697 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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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.