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Tornado Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 2004, 3:59 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 29, 2004, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2004, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Doña Ana County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEPZ 292159 TORELP NMC013-292245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 357 PM MDT WED SEP 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VADO...MESQUITE...MESILLA AND LAS CRUCES * UNTIL 445 PM MDT * AT 348 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MOVING INTO SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY NEAR SANTA TERESA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND DOORS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS. LAT...LON 3168 10720 3155 10682 3229 10659 3258 10694 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 1:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Luna, Sierra | 49 min |
| Sep 29, 1:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 46 min |
| Sep 29, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 43 min |
| Sep 29, 3:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 39 min |
| Sep 29, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 3:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 33 min |
| Sep 29, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 40 min |
| Sep 29, 4:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Otero | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 4:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 76 min |
| Sep 29, 5:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Otero | 29 min |
| Sep 29, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 42 min |
| Sep 29, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 56 min |
| Sep 29, 5:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Otero | 52 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.