Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 18, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Sep 7, 2012, 2:23 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 8, 2012, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2012, 2:23 PM MDT (20:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 8, 2012, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
County El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614 WWUS74 KEPZ 072023 NPWEPZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 223 PM MDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN TEXAS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN TEXAS TONIGHT RESULTING IN WINDY CONDITIONS ALONG AND BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. EAST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED ALONG WESTERN FACING MOUNTAIN SLOPES...ESPECIALLY AROUND WESTERN PORTIONS OF EL PASO AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. TXZ418-419-081215- /O.NEW.KEPZ.WI.Y.0018.120908T0600Z-120908T1800Z/ WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY-EASTERN/CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DOWNTOWN...WEST EL PASO... UPPER VALLEY...FORT BLISS...SOCORRO...EAST AND NORTHEAST EL PASO 223 PM MDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON MDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON MDT SATURDAY. * EVENT: EAST WINDS INCREASING TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR ALONG WESTERN FACING MOUNTAINS SLOPES INCLUDING OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF EL PASO AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. * TIMING: WINDS INCREASING AROUND MIDNIGHT SATURDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL DECREASE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACT: HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS DUE TO CROSS WINDS...INCLUDING ALONG INTERSTATE 10. * VISIBILITY: ISOLATED AREAS OF VISIBILITIES LESS THAN A MILE FROM BLOWING DUST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ ROGASH
Nearby
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.