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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS El Paso, TX

July 4, 1997Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1997, 3:35 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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
Jul 4, 1997, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1997, 4:25 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Sierra County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 4, 4:15 PM MDTHail 1Hillsboro, NMSevere thunderstorm with large hail was accompanied by heavy rain and minor flooding to about one foot in depth along main street.

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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1997-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 220 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 1997-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 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.

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 Jul 4, 1:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
140 PM MDT FRI JUL 4 1997

LATEST STLT PIX SHOWING A FEW PATCHES OF AC AROUND CWA W/ MSTLY CLDY
CONDS OVR SRN SACS. SFC CDFNT STRETCHED W-E THRU CNTRL SXSNS OF FA
NOT EVIDENT IN IMAGERY BUT IS EVIDENT IN SFC WIND FIELD PLOTS. FNT
ALSO BARELY SEEN IN EPZ 88D VELOCITY/REFLECTIVITY DATA. QUITE A MIX
OF WX ELEMENTS TDA AND THIS WILL MAKE AFTNN CONVECTION FCST
INTERESTING. MORNING EPZ RAOB SHOWED PW OF 1.00 INCH. CONVECTIVE
TEMP OF 96 CLOSE TO FORECASTED HI SO NOT EXPECTING MUCH ACTIVITY
UNTIL LATE AFTNN/EARLY EVENING. AT THAT TIME...LIS WILL BE NEAR -8
W/CAPES AROUND 2000. TSRA WILL HAVE A HARD TIME GETTING GOING OVR
SRN SACS PER EXISTING CLOUD COVER. OTHERWISE...CDFNT BECOMING
STATIONARY WILL ADD FOCUSING MECHANISM...ASIDE FROM OROGRAPHICS...
THAT HAS BEEN LACKING LAST FEW DAYS. PROFILERS SHOWING SOME
SPEED/DIRECTIONAL SHEAR SO WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A FEW
SEVERE CELLS LATER BUT NOTHING VERY ORGANIZED. POPS LOOKING GOOD
ATTM.

MORNING ETA/NGM FAIRLY SIMILAR THRU FP. SFC HI OVR SRN PLAINS TO
WEAKEN AND SLIDE E AS SFC CDFNT WASHES OUT OVR FA. MSTR NOT IN ANY
HURRY TO LEAVE AS LO LVL E-SELY FLOW CONTINUES BUT WEAKENS TOWARD
END OF PD WITH DIMINISHING HI. WILL KEEP POPS FOR LOWLANDS IN CHANCE
CAT FOR NIGHT PDS W/CHANCES FALLING OFF FOR SUN AS A LTL DRYING
BEGINS TO OCCUR. CHANCE POPS LOOK GUD THRUOUT THE DAY OVR HIER
ELEVATIONS. HGHTS DONT CHANGE A LOT BUT THCKNSS SHOW SLIGHT RISE
NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS SO WARMING TREND INDICATED IN CCF.

IN THE EXTENDED...LATEST MRF DIFFERING QUITE A BIT FROM EURO/UK AS
THE LATTER TWO DEVELOP AN UPR TROF OVR THE PACNW. FOLLOWING AVN/MRF
TRENDS...CURRENT SFPS LOOK GOOD W/WARMUP AND PTLY CLDY CONDS.

7/REYNOLDS

SILVER CITY           BB  62/ 90/ 62/ 92 4333
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB  69/ 94/ 69/ 96 3231
ALAMOGORDO            BB  68/ 97/ 68/ 99 3231
CLOUDCROFT            BB  50/ 75/ 50/ 77 4333
LORDSBURG             BB  68/ 99/ 68/101 323-
DEMING                BB  68/ 96/ 68/ 98 323-
LAS CRUCES            BB  66/ 96/ 66/ 98 323-
EL PASO               BB  71/ 98/ 71/100 323-

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 2:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra30 min
Jul 4, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra47 min
Jul 4, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.