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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX

May 15, 2005Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2005, 5:33 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
May 15, 2005, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2005, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 15, 3:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 409 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 209 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 166 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.