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Wind Advisory 6, NWS El Paso, TX
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 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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 9:24 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Lincoln, Otero, 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.