Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS El Paso, TX

September 1, 1996Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1996, 6:10 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 1996, 6:10 PM MDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 1996, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 296 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1996-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 998 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1996-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 10:41 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana2 hr
Sep 1, 9:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZEl Paso46 min
Sep 1, 10:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZEl Paso2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.