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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS El Paso, TX

July 11, 2021Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2021, 6:54 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2021, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2021, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 11, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted.

239 
WUUS54 KEPZ 120054
SVREPZ
TXC229-120145-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0045.210712T0054Z-210712T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
654 PM MDT Sun Jul 11 2021

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Hudspeth County in western Texas...

* Until 745 PM MDT.

* At 654 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Dell City to 12 miles north of Cornudas to 13
  miles northeast of Loma Linda, moving south at 10 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Dell City, Cornudas, Salt Flat and Cornudas Mountains. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3161 10508 3154 10545 3160 10574 3200 10578
      3200 10546 3199 10506
TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 008DEG 9KT 3196 10517 3197 10548 3195 10575 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

GRZYWACZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	52 min
Jul 11, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	44 min
Jul 11, 8:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 11, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	El Paso	49 min
Jul 11, 8:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	El Paso	3 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.