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Wind Advisory 18, NWS El Paso, TX

April 11, 2019El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 11, 2019, 5:20 AM MDT for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 11, 2019, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 11, 2019, 5:20 AM MDT (11:20 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 11, 2019, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired: Apr 11, 2019, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

Counties El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 10, 3:35 PM MDT, 13 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 3:35 PM MDT, 13 hours 45 minutes before

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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.