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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS El Paso, TX

September 29, 2019Otero County, New Mexico; Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2019, 5:36 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico; Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 29, 2019, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 2019, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Otero County, NM, Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 317 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 12:00Z on 2019-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1001 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 12:00Z on 2019-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 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
1001 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 4:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHudspeth51 min
Sep 29, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth23 min
Sep 29, 4:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Sep 29, 4:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Sep 29, 5:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHudspeth45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2019Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.