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Tornado Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

October 23, 2000Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2000, 6:17 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 43 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, 6:17 PM MDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Oct 23, 2000, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
43 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 00:00Z on 2000-10-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 539 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 00:00Z on 2000-10-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KEPZ 240018
TORELP

NMC013-240100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 605 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  NORTH OF LAS CRUC
ES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN...
  OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY 

LAT...LON 3270 10691 3257 10676 3288 10634 3299 10655

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana49 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.