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Blowing Dust Advisory 21, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this blowing dust advisory at May 5, 2025, 6:46 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, Sierra County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2025, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2025, 7:42 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 386 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 544 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
Nearby
Blowing Dust Advisories in New Mexico, 2025Blowing Dust Advisories in Texas, 2025Every blowing dust advisory in 2025
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.