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Fire Weather Watch 21, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this fire weather watch at Apr 24, 2009, 1:20 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 25, 2009, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2009, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 25, 2009, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2009, 6:25 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.