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High Wind Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this high wind warning at Mar 2, 2025, 12:17 PM MST for 5 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 3, 2025, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 8 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
- Mar 2, 2025, 12:17 PM MST (19:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2025, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2025, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
- 2240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Mar 2, 10:49 AM MST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 10:49 AM MST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 11:35 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:44 AM MST | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra | 11 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:17 PM MST | Wind Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 32 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in New Mexico, 2025High Wind Warnings in Texas, 2025Every high wind warning 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.