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Tornado Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX

June 6, 1997Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1997, 5:06 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 6, 1997, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1997, 5:55 PM MDT
In force
49 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 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 062305
TORELP
TXC229-062355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
506 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 555 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION ...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...EAST CENTRAL HUDSPETH COUNTY
 
AT 504 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 25 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SIERRA BLANCA MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

 THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

...THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION..ACT QUICKLY. GO TO A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS.
ABANDON 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 6, 3:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth47 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.