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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

July 22, 2021Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2021, 10:47 PM MDT for Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 28 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 22, 2021, 10:47 PM MDT (04:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2021, 11:15 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

County Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2021-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2116 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2021-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 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 Jul 22, 5:46 PM MDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 5:46 PM MDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 10:47 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 10:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo2 hr
Jul 23, 9:10 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ35 min
Jul 23, 11:38 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero6 min
Jul 23, 11:44 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 23, 12:26 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 23, 1:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 23, 1:52 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 23, 2:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna35 min
Jul 23, 2:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ31 min
Jul 23, 2:52 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant3 hr
Jul 23, 3:04 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna3 hr
Jul 23, 3:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Luna, Sierra35 min
Jul 23, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana31 min
Jul 23, 4:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna3 hr
Jul 23, 4:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana18 min
Jul 23, 4:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana23 min
Jul 23, 4:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Jul 23, 4:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Jul 23, 4:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra32 min
Jul 23, 5:12 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Jul 23, 5:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Jul 23, 5:21 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Sierra3 hr
Jul 23, 5:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra35 min
Jul 23, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra42 min
Jul 23, 5:35 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
Jul 23, 5:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna34 min
Jul 23, 3:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso31 min
Jul 23, 4:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso28 min
Jul 23, 5:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso35 min
Jul 23, 5:43 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso3 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.