Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1997, 2:41 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- May 21, 1997, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1997, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 21, 2:04 PM MDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:04 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 200 PM MDT WED MAY 21 1997 YSTRDAYS RAINS ACROS AREA DROPPED BETWEEN ONE TENTH AND ONE INCH OVR MUCH OF AREA...ESPECIALLY SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PTNS OF FA. HI LVL CLOUDS CLEARING FROM W TO E...TUS MRNG SNDG DRIER TDY THN YSTRDAY. BUT LOW LVLS STILL QUITE MOIST OVR ENTIRE AREA. EARLY AFT STARTING TO SEE SOME ACTIVITY ON RADAR MOSTLY S IN VCNTY OF WK UPR LVL DIST MOVING NE INTO FA FRM SW...ALSO AREA OF BEST HEATING. NGM SHOWS THETA E RIDGE REMAINS NEARLY STNRY OVR ELP EXTENDING N INTO NM WITH A GRADUAL SHIFT E...BUT NOT FAR ENOUGH TO CAUSE SIG DRYING. MRNG SNDG HAD .88 PRECIP WTR / ALMOST 200 PERCENT...WEST SHOULD DRY SOME...BUT STILL SEE GOOD CHC OF AFT AND EVE TSTRMS. TO AID IN TSTRM DVLPMT...500H COOL POCKET AND WEAK 300H DIV OVR FA TNGHT AND TMRW. WITH WEAK STEERING FLOW...STORMS WILL BE SLOW MVRS WITH LCLY HVY RAIN LIKELY TNGHT AND TMRW. IN LOCATIONS ALREADY RECEIVING SIG RAIN PAST DAYS...SOME LCL FLOODING MAY OCCUR. THIS PATTERN SHOULD REPEAT ITSELF AGAIN THURSDAY. WNDS STAY LGHT AND EITHR VRBL OR SW THRU PD WITH WEAK GRADIENTS. NGM MOS TMPS LOOK PRETTY GOOD EXCPT FOR TNGHTS LOW LOOKS TOO TNGHT...WILL UP IT. IN EXTND...UPPER LVL FLOW TEND TOWARD NW...AND MAY HLP CUT OFF MONSOONAL PATTERN. 14 / BIRD SILVER CITY BB 46/ 74/ 47/ 76 3322 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB 54/ 78/ 55/ 80 3332 ALAMOGORDO BB 55/ 82/ 56/ 84 4342 CLOUDCROFT BB 39/ 61/ 40/ 63 5542 LORDSBURG BB 49/ 82/ 50/ 84 3232 DEMING BB 50/ 81/ 51/ 83 4342 LAS CRUCES BB 51/ 81/ 52/ 83 4342 EL PASO BB 58/ 83/ 59/ 85 534T2
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.