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Winter Weather Advisory 7, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 15, 2021, 2:39 PM MST for Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 16, 2021, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2021, 2:39 PM MST (21:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2021, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2021, 2:00 AM MST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
County Otero County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.