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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS El Paso, TX

June 15, 1997Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 12:54 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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 15, 1997, 12:54 PM MDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1997, 1:25 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Doña Ana County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 92 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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 15, 2:47 AM MDT, 10 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:47 AM MDT, 10 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZEl Paso31 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.