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Wind Advisory 5, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 26, 2026, 10:33 AM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, Sierra County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 27, 2026, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2026, 10:33 AM MDT (16:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2026, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2026, 7:52 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- 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 16:36 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 5066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 26, 5:23 AM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 5:23 AM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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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.