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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2021, 6:12 PM MDT. It was in force for 48 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
- Jun 5, 2021, 6:12 PM MDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2021, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jun 5, 5:41 PM MDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 5:41 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 5:51 AM MDT, 12 hours 21 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM 551 AM MDT Sat Jun 5 2021 NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-061200- 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- 551 AM MDT Sat Jun 5 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central New Mexico, southwest New Mexico, and southwest Texas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Another afternoon with generally isolated showers and thunderstorms. Storms will form first over area mountains by early afternoon...with lowland storms later in the day. Storms will move from north to south today. These storms are not expected to be severe, but could produce wind gusts over 35 mph and create areas of blowing dust along with brief heavy rain and pea size hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday The weather hazards quickly transition from thunderstorm threats to heat-related threats as the region dries out and high pressure builds in to warm temperatures. We are expecting several triple- digit max temperature days across Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico this week. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke will be more likely in this hot and dry weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed today, but spotters are encouraged to report any significant weather to NWS El Paso. 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 5, 6:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 44 min | |
| Jun 5, 6:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 1:08 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | EPZ | 14 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.