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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX

July 15, 2004Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2004, 2:11 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 2004, 2:11 PM MDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEPZ 152011
SVRELP
NMC013-035-152100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
206 PM MDT THU JUL 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO
  CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 300 PM MDT

* AT 200 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF OROGRANDE TO 15 
MILES NORTHEAST OF OROGRANDE...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER RURAL SOUTHWESTERN 
OTERO COUNTY AND RURAL EASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY THROUGH 300 PM MDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY 
SHELTER...MOVE AWAY FROM ARROYOS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. 
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING 
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND 
VERY HEAVY RAIN.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS NEAR ARROYOS ALONG HIGHWAY 54. 
AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE 
WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE 
SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3209 10592 3250 10539 3273 10619 3213 10660

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	62 min

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.