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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS El Paso, TX

July 6, 1997El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1997, 11:28 PM MDT for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 6, 1997, 11:28 PM MDT (05:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1997, 12:15 AM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 343 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 639 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
639 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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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.