Alert archive / New Mexico / Winter Storm Warnings in 2023
Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this winter storm warning at Jan 23, 2023, 12:12 PM MST for Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 23, 2023, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 19 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2023, 12:12 PM MST (19:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2023, 5:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2023, 12:00 PM MST
- In force
- 19 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 19:17 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 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
- 2005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 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.