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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX

June 27, 2003Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 8:11 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2003, 8:11 PM MDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2003-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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.

117 
WUUS54 KEPZ 280211
SVRELP
TXC229-280245-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
811 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL HUDSPETH COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 802 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CORNUDAS...OR ABOUT 42 MILES EAST OF
  MONTANA VISTA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHERN HUDSPETH COUNTY AT 830 PM MDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM ARROYOS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3185 10552 3172 10550 3172 10525 3189 10532

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZEl Paso53 min
Jun 27, 8:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth38 min

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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.