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Wind Advisory 6, NWS El Paso, TX

February 20, 2024Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 20, 2024, 12:19 PM MST for Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 21, 2024, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 20, 2024, 12:19 PM MST (19:19 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 21, 2024, 11:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 21, 2024, 7:00 PM MST
In force
8 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 19:24 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, 7.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-02-20Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-02-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
3262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 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
Feb 20, 9:24 AM MSTRed Flag WarningEPZDoña Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Sierra34 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.