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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS El Paso, TX

June 7, 1997Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1997, 3:29 AM MDT for Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 51 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
Jun 7, 1997, 3:29 AM MDT (09:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1997, 4:20 AM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 1997-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 7, 2:32 AM MDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:32 AM MDT, 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 11:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHidalgo63 min
Jun 6, 11:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHidalgo65 min
Jun 7, 1:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Luna64 min
Jun 7, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant61 min
Jun 7, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra62 min
Jun 7, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero60 min
Jun 7, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana63 min
Jun 7, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana75 min
Jun 6, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth68 min
Jun 7, 4:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth47 min
Jun 7, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.