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Dust Storm Advisory 6, NWS El Paso, TX

July 19, 2021Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this dust storm advisory at Jul 19, 2021, 3:54 PM MDT for Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2021, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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 dust storm 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 dust storm advisory went out at Jul 18, 5:54 PM MDT, 22 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 5:54 PM MDT, 22 hours 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.