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High Wind Watch 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 28, 2022, 3:34 AM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 29, 2022, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2022, 3:34 AM MDT (09:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 29, 2022, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2022, 4:28 PM MDT
- 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 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 6177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 27, 11:23 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 11:23 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 4:28 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | EPZ | Otero | 34 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:28 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra | 34 hr |
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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.