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Wind Advisory 6, NWS El Paso, TX

March 31, 2026Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 31, 2026, 10:30 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 1, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2026, 10:30 PM MDT (04:30 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 1, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 1, 2026, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 7 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 04:28 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, 4.5 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 31, 8:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 8:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 12:43 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in New Mexico, 2026 Every wind advisory in 2026

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.