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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS El Paso, TX

September 3, 1996Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1996, 5:05 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 1996, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Luna County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 296 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1996-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1155 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1996-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
1155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.