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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

August 22, 2021Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2021, 7:00 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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
Aug 22, 2021, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2021, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

County Grant County, NM

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 207 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 2021-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 809 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 2021-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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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 Aug 22, 5:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 5:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:00 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
Aug 22, 7:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo117 min
Aug 22, 10:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra119 min
Aug 22, 10:46 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant119 min
Aug 23, 12:11 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant19 min
Aug 23, 12:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant3 hr
Aug 23, 12:39 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Aug 23, 12:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo32 min
Aug 23, 1:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHidalgo41 min
Aug 23, 1:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo33 min
Aug 23, 1:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Aug 23, 1:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZHidalgo3 hr
Aug 23, 2:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Sierra3 hr
Aug 23, 2:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo3 hr
Aug 23, 2:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero117 min
Aug 23, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo30 min
Aug 23, 2:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo28 min
Aug 23, 2:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant23 min
Aug 23, 3:00 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo3 hr
Aug 23, 3:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Sierra3 hr
Aug 23, 3:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant, Sierra3 hr
Aug 23, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Hidalgo38 min
Aug 23, 3:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant3 hr
Aug 23, 3:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Luna25 min
Aug 23, 3:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant, Sierra2 hr
Aug 23, 3:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant35 min
Aug 23, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Luna27 min
Aug 23, 4:06 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra114 min
Aug 23, 4:13 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana16 min
Aug 23, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana28 min
Aug 23, 4:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra37 min
Aug 23, 4:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana106 min
Aug 23, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra35 min
Aug 23, 4:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra21 min
Aug 23, 4:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
Aug 23, 5:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra3 hr
Aug 23, 5:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero111 min
Aug 23, 5:28 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Otero, Sierra2 hr
Aug 23, 5:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana112 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.