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Heat Advisory 4, NWS El Paso, TX

July 11, 2016El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this heat advisory at Jul 11, 2016, 2:55 AM MDT for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 2016, 2:55 AM MDT (08:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2016, 4:30 AM MDT
In force
5 days
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

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 08:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1192 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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.