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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

June 5, 2000Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2000, 1:43 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 32 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 5, 2000, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2000, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 2000-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 24 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 2000-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 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
24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-359 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEPZ 051946
SVRELP
NMC035-052015-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
143 PM MDT MON JUN 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTY

IN NEW MEXICO
     EXTREME NORTHEASTERN OTERO

AT 132 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY...OR 
ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF RUIDOSO...AND REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY. 

LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LOCAL HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN EL PASO.

LAT...LON 3332 10575 3313 10570 3314 10549 3331 10548

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.