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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1998, 5:19 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 8, 1998, 5:19 PM MDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1998, 6:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 366 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
- 166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 8, 2:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
200 PM MDT WED JUL 8 1998
5H HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS IN PLACE OVER N TX. LAST MODEL RUN INDICATES
SOME BUILDING TO WEST THU. ABUNDANT LLVL MSTR REMAINS OVER FA.
ALTHOUGH LATEST WV STLT PIX INDIC SOME MINOR DRYG...WIDELY SCATTERED
CONVECTION IS OR WILL FIRE OVER FA THIS AFTN/EVNG AND SLIGHTLY LESS
THURSDAY. CONVECTION SW NM LTL SLWR TO FIRE TDY WITH COOLER SFC
TEMPS DUE TO MRNG CLD CVR. BEST CHNCES PCPN THIS EVENG ALONG PVA
WESTERN NM AND S-SE OF ELP AREA AS 4H COOL POOL MOVG N OVR TX BIG
BEND TNGT AND OVR SE NM FRI. FEW ERLY MRNG -SHRA AGAIN PSBL SRN FA
THU AM AS PAST COUPLE MRNGS. MAX TEMP GUID RMNS A LTL ON HIGH SIDE
SO WL ADJ DOWN A FEW DEG. EXTENDED...CONT CURRENT TREND AS UPPER RIDGE
REAINS OVER AREA.
P R E L I M N U M B E R S
SILVER CITY EB 59/ 85/ 60/ 86 4332
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB 67/ 92/ 66/ 93 3232
ALAMOGORDO BB 67/ 93/ 66/ 94 3221
CLOUDCROFT BB 48/ 69/ 49/ 72 4322
LORDSBURG BB 67/ 93/ 65/ 95 3221
DEMING BB 65/ 92/ 65/ 94 3221
LAS CRUCES BB 67/ 93/ 65/ 94 3221
EL PASO BB 71/ 95/ 70/ 96 3221The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 32 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.