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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS El Paso, TX

July 25, 1998Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1998, 6:55 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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 25, 1998, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1998, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 50 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 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 25, 2:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
250 PM MDT SAT JUL 25 1998

PERSISTENCE RULES...AND THAT MEANS A SLOW DRYING AND WARMING
TREND...ESPECIALLY WEST.  CONVECTION STARTING SLOWER TODAY AND
LATELY HAS DEFINATELY SHOWN A NIGHTTIME MAXIMUM.  PLENTY OF
INSTABILITY AROUND.  MID LEVELS DRYING IN WESTERN CWA...LOSING
POTENTIAL FOR WET MICROBURSTS THERE. VAD-WIND PROFILE AND PROFILERS
SHOW CONTINUE TO SHOW LIGHT WEST DESICATING WINDS. SATELLITE IMAGERY
SHOWS UPPER LOW...CENTERED NEAR DEL RIO...IS STILL WORKING EVER SO
SLOW WESTWARD.  ETA/NGM ANALYZE VORT CENTERS ALONG ITS WESTERN EDGE
IN EASTERN NM BUT THESE SHOW NO WESTERN ADVECTION WITH TIME.  SO NO
SYNOPTIC FORCING EVIDENT.  MODELS SHOW 700MB THETA-E RIDGE ALONG
EASTERN CWA AGAIN FOR SUNDAY/MONDAY. SO WILL TREND POPS DOWN TO
ISOLATED/SLIGHT CHANCE FOR ALL BUT EASTERN MOUNTAINS.  EXTENDED:
PERSITENCE.

RAMEY 6///

SILVER CITY           BB  58/ 85/ 60/ 86 3222
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB  65/ 91/ 66/ 91 3222
ALAMOGORDO            BB  64/ 90/ 66/ 90 3232
CLOUDCROFT            BB  46/ 70/ 48/ 71 4343
LORDSBURG             BB  64/ 94/ 66/ 95 2121
DEMING                BB  63/ 93/ 64/ 93 2121
LAS CRUCES            BB  62/ 92/ 64/ 93 3222
EL PASO               BB  67/ 93/ 69/ 94 3222

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.