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Tornado Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX

June 7, 1997Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1997, 6:27 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1997, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1997, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 48 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 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 7, 7:03 PM MDT	Tornado F1	Sierra Blanca, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 7, 5:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

246 
WFUS1 KELP 080025 RRA
TORELP
TXC229-080115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
627 PM MDT SAT JUN 7 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION ...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...HUDSPETH COUNTY
 
AT 626 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIERRA BLANCA
MOVING NORTHEAST 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	62 min
Jun 7, 7:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	50 min
Jun 7, 9:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.