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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this winter storm watch at Feb 12, 2021, 2:08 PM MST for Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 13, 2021, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2021, 2:08 PM MST (21:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2021, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2021, 1:42 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Otero County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 2848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Texas, 2021Winter Storm Watches in New Mexico, 2021Every winter storm watch 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.