Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS El Paso, TX

September 13, 1999Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 1999, 2:41 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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
Sep 13, 1999, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 1999, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1999-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 317 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 1999-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 11:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant46 min
Sep 13, 12:58 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.