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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS El Paso, TX

June 7, 2023Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2023, 3:45 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2023, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2023, 4:01 PM MDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 5:52 PM MDT, 21 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 5:52 PM MDT, 21 hours 53 minutes before

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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
Jun 6, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	14 min
Jun 6, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	49 min
Jun 6, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	42 min
Jun 6, 6:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	35 min
Jun 6, 6:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	33 min
Jun 6, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	21 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		33 min
Jun 6, 6:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	26 min
Jun 6, 6:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	35 min
Jun 6, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	22 min
Jun 6, 7:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		34 min
Jun 6, 7:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		34 min
Jun 6, 7:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jun 6, 7:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jun 6, 7:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		36 min
Jun 6, 7:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	31 min
Jun 6, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra	43 min
Jun 6, 8:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	37 min
Jun 6, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	22 min
Jun 6, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	17 min
Jun 6, 6:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	2 hr
Jun 6, 6:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	38 min
Jun 6, 6:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	2 hr
Jun 6, 6:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	2 hr
Jun 6, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	16 min
Jun 6, 6:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	24 min
Jun 6, 7:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	117 min
Jun 7, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	33 min
Jun 7, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	23 min
Jun 7, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	36 min
Jun 7, 4:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	21 min

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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.