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Tornado Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX

October 23, 2000Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2000, 5:52 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Oct 23, 2000, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Oct 23, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Doña Ana County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 2000-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEPZ 232353
TORELP

NMC013-240015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
552 PM MDT MON OCT 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 541 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RADIUM SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LAS CRUCES...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   RADIUM SPRINGS BY 557 PM MDT

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A;
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BEWARE OF THE THREAT
OF RISING WATER.

LAT...LON 3241 10713 3233 10696 3272 10674 3280 10703

The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana43 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.