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Dust Storm Advisory 7, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this dust storm advisory at Oct 12, 2021, 12:23 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2021, 12:23 PM MDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2021, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Luna County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 12, 11:45 AM MDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 11:45 AM MDT, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 3:06 PM MDT | Hard Freeze Warning | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero | 18 hr |
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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.