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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

September 30, 2021Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Sep 30, 2021, 3:22 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 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: Sep 30, 2021, 3:22 PM MDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2021, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 40

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 386 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: 1726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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
Sep 30, 2:46 AM MDT	Flood Watch	EPZ	Otero	5 min
Sep 30, 2:56 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	EPZ	Otero	15 hr
Sep 30, 8:15 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Sep 30, 2:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		26 min
Sep 30, 3:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	29 min
Sep 30, 3:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	37 min
Sep 29, 11:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	23 min
Sep 30, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	25 min
Sep 30, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	27 min
Sep 30, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	27 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.