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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

August 24, 2021El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2021, 5:41 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 24, 2021, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2021, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 23, 5:49 PM MDT, 23 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 5:49 PM MDT, 23 hours 52 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
Aug 23, 6:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	23 min
Aug 23, 6:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	27 min
Aug 23, 6:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	37 min
Aug 23, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	31 min
Aug 23, 7:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	31 min
Aug 23, 8:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	117 min
Aug 23, 8:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	113 min
Aug 23, 8:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Aug 24, 12:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 24, 1:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	28 min
Aug 24, 1:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 24, 1:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Aug 24, 2:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Aug 24, 3:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	113 min
Aug 24, 5:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	115 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.