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Tornado Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 2016, 6:18 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 2016, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 2016, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 6:49 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | Horizon City, TX | WIND GUST OCCURRED SAME TIME AS LARGE HAIL... .25 INCH RAIN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
310
WFUS54 KEPZ 050018
TOREPZ
TXC141-050045-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.TO.W.0002.161105T0018Z-161105T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
618 PM MDT FRI NOV 4 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 645 PM MDT
* AT 617 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOCORRO...OR NEAR CLINT...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
HORIZON CITY AROUND 630 PM MDT. SPOTTERS HAVE SEEN A FUNNEL CLOUD
WITH THIS STORM.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
COLONIA DEL PASO...AGUA DULCE...DAIRYLAND AND SPARKS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3162 10628 3166 10629 3169 10614 3160 10612
TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 272DEG 17KT 3164 10624
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
TSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 51 min |
| Nov 4, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 25 min |
| Nov 4, 6:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 26 min |
| Nov 4, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.