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Wind Advisory 6, NWS El Paso, TX

February 22, 2020Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 22, 2020, 8:34 PM MST for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2020, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2020, 8:34 PM MST (03:34 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 23, 2020, 5:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 23, 2020, 7:00 PM MST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

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

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 338 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2020-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2020-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.