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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2005, 6:56 PM MDT for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 26, 2005, 6:56 PM MDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2005, 7:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 343 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2255 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 2:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 11:10 AM MDT, 7 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1110 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 NMZ022>024-030>032-TXZ055-056-262200- EL PASO TX-HUDSPETH TX-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION NM- SOUTHERN DESERT NM-SOUTHWEST DESERT/BOOTHEEL NM- SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN NM- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION NM- TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT NM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALAMOGORDO...ANTHONY...CANUTILLO... CHAPARRAL...DEMING...EL PASO...FABENS...FORT BLISS...HOLLOMAN AFB... LAS CRUCES...LORDSBURG...MONTANA VISTA...SAN ELIZARIO... SIERRA BLANCA...SILVER CITY...SOCORRO...SUNLAND PARK... TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES AND UNIVERSITY PARK 1110 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. TONIGHT A STRONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHEAST. THIS SYSTEM WILL INCREASE THUNDERSTORM AND SHOWER ACTIVITY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE REGION LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. MOISTURE LEVELS ARE WELL ABOVE NORMAL...AND SLOW MOVING STORMS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL FOR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THUS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FOR THURSDAY MUCH OF THE MOISTURE GETS SHOVED SOUTH AND WEST OF THE AREA WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN HOWEVER. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER AREAS EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE...BUT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER AREAS WEST OF THE RIVER. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL RAISE CHANCES FOR ARROYO/ROADWAY AND RESIDENTIAL FLOODING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...STORM COVERAGE WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH THE PERIOD ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING ARE STILL A POSSIBILITY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT REQUIRED AT THIS TIME BUT MAY BE REQUIRED BEGINNING LATER TUESDAY. BIRD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
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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.