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Wind Advisory 12, NWS El Paso, TX

March 20, 20225 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 20, 2022, 1:38 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 21, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 2022, 1:38 PM MDT (19:38 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 21, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 21, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 6:11 AM MDTWind AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra14 hr

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.