Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 6:32 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1997, 6:32 PM MDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:40 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Socorro, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, 2:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 200 PM MDT SUN JUN 15 1997 RADAR ALRDY HOPPING WITH 1.5 INCH HAIL AND AN APRNT FALSE TVS. SO DISC TO BE SHORT. LATEST ETA DEEPR AND SLOWER WITH H5 LOW. H8 MIXR REMAIN AT 12 FOR TX ZONES TONIGHT...DRYER FOR NM ZONES AND AT H7 WITH DRY SLOT IN AT 48 HRS. WILL KEEP POPS UP FOR TONIGHT AND A SLIGHT CHC FOR NE ON MONDAY AS LOW EJECTS. WILL STAY CLOSE TO MOS TEMPS EXCEPT FOR COOLER TNGT AND MONDAY. SVR- 3 WEEKENDS IN A ROW NOW. NOTE:CCF NUMBERS INCORRECT. ZONE HAS REAL NUMBERS. 6 SILVER CITY BB 48/ 72/ 50/ 82 3100 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB 56/ 78/ 58/ 88 3100 ALAMOGORDO BB 56/ 80/ 58/ 90 3100 CLOUDCROFT BB 39/ 59/ 41/ 69 3100 LORDSBURG BB 52/ 82/ 54/ 92 3100 DEMING BB 52/ 80/ 54/ 90 3100 LAS CRUCES BB 53/ 79/ 55/ 89 3100 EL PASO BB 58/ 82/ 60/ 92 3100
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 34 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.