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High Wind Watch 1, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this high wind watch at Jan 20, 2019, 6:24 AM MST for Grant County, Luna County, Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 21, 2019, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 2019, 6:24 AM MST (13:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2019, 9:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2019, 2:22 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Grant County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:29 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 3086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 20, 3:07 AM MST, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 3:07 AM MST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2:22 PM MST | High Wind Warning | EPZ | Grant, Luna, Otero | 37 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:22 PM MST | Wind Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 32 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2019Every high wind watch in 2019
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.