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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS El Paso, TX

July 5, 1997Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 6:37 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 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
Jul 5, 1997, 6:37 PM MDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 7:25 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Otero County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 341 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 777 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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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 5, 12:55 PM MDT, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 12:55 PM MDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1250 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

MRNG MDLS CONTINUE TREND OF SHIFTING 5H RDG FURTHER EAST WITH DRIER
WRLY FLOW ALOFT PUSHING INTO THE AREA AND MORE STABLE CONDITIONS
OVER CWA. ENUF LOW LEVEL MSTR AND INSTABILITY REMAINS TO GENERATE
SOME CLDS AND ISOLATED TSTMS THRU EARLY EVENING HOURS...ESPECIALLY
ALONG THE EASTERN MOUNTAIN ZONES. MOST ACTIVITY TO BE MAINLY EAST
OF CWA WHERE CONDITIONS ARE BETTER FOR STRONG TSTM DEVELOPMENT.
NOT AS MUCH ACTIVITY EXPECTED ACROSS CWA TOMORROW. LATER PDS
INDICATE A WEAK SHORT WV ON THE WEST COAST TO MOVE INTO AZ AND PUSH
5H RDG SOUTH...FURTHER ENHANCING DRY WESTERLY FLOW. MOS GDNC TMPS
FLUCTUATING SOMEWHAT BETWEEN RUNS...BUT REMAIN REASONABLE.

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SILVER CITY           AA  57/ 92/ 60/ 92 1111
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES AA  64/ 96/ 67/ 96 1---
ALAMOGORDO            AA  63/ 99/ 66/ 99 1111
CLOUDCROFT            AA  45/ 77/ 48/ 77 2222
LORDSBURG             AA  63/101/ 66/101 -00-
DEMING                AA  63/ 98/ 66/ 98 -00-
LAS CRUCES            AA  61/ 98/ 64/ 98 100-
EL PASO               AA  66/100/ 69/100 100-

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.