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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

May 22, 2021

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2021, 2:39 PM MDT. 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: May 22, 2021, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2021, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 21, 5:56 PM MDT, 20 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 5:56 PM MDT, 20 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 5:46 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra	14 hr
May 22, 2:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		43 min
May 22, 2:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	49 min
May 22, 3:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	49 min
May 22, 3:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	52 min
May 22, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	28 min
May 22, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	24 min
May 22, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	28 min

Nearby

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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.