Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1997, 6:18 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1997, 6:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Doña Ana County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KELP 080017 RRA TORELP NMC013-080055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 618 PM MDT SAT JUN 7 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION ... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY AT 618 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORGAN MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. ...THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION..ACT QUICKLY. GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED B6UILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 8:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 9:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 46 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes 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.