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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS El Paso, TX

June 5, 2020Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2020, 9:26 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 5, 2020, 9:26 PM MDT (03:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2020, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 332 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: 158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 6:33 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:33 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 6:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	40 min
Jun 5, 6:11 PM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	EPZ	Otero	64 min
Jun 5, 8:00 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Jun 5, 8:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna, Otero, Sierra	81 min
Jun 5, 10:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	44 min
Jun 5, 10:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	46 min
Jun 6, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		49 min
Jun 6, 3:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	41 min
Jun 6, 4:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2020 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2020 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.