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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this winter storm warning at Dec 30, 2020, 3:47 AM MST for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 25 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 2020, 3:47 AM MST (10:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2020, 5:00 AM MST
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
County Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 30, 3:21 AM MST, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 3:21 AM MST, 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 29, 6:02 AM MST, 21 hours 45 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM 602 AM MST Tue Dec 29 2020 NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-301315- Upper Gila River Valley-Southern Gila Highlands/Black Range- Southern Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley- Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley-Lowlands of the Bootheel- Uplands of the Bootheel-Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin- Eastern Black Range Foothills-Sierra County Lakes- Northern Dona Ana County-Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley- Central Tularosa Basin-Southern Tularosa Basin- West Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet- Sacramento Mountains Above 7500 Feet- East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet-Otero Mesa- Western El Paso County-Eastern/Central El Paso County- Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-Salt Basin- Southern Hudspeth Highlands- Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties- Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County- 602 AM MST Tue Dec 29 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central New Mexico, southwest New Mexico, and southwest Texas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Isolated rain and snow showers along with breezy afternoon winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday Breezy winds Wednesday, then a chance for snow mainly across Hudspeth county midday Wednesday into Wednesday night . A few inches of accumulation will be possible depending on the exact track of the system. Another shot at light rain/snow showers comes Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
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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.