Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2005, 2:45 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 28, 2005, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2005, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Otero County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 28, 2:30 AM MDT, 12 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:30 AM MDT, 12 hours 15 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 1:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 100 PM MDT SUN AUG 28 2005 NMZ024-025-290059- SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS NM-TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT NM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALAMOGORDO...ANTHONY... CHAPARRAL AND HOLLOMAN AFB 100 PM MDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR OTERO COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SLIDING THROUGH THE AREA FROM THE NORTH WILL HELP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS AREA OF OTERO COUNTY. THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE POTENTIALLY SEVERE WINDS EXCEEDING 60 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. STORMS THAT HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED...HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. AS SUCH...LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...ARROYOS...DRAINAGES...AND ROADS IS POSSIBLE. PERSONS SHOULD AVOID DRAINAGES AND ARROYOS WHEN RAIN IS NEARBY. DRIVERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY FLOODED ROADS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. PIEPER
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 2:36 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 236 PM MDT SUN AUG 28 2005 NMZ024-025-282130- SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT- ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF TULAROSA...MOVING SOUTH AT AROUND 25 MPH... AT 233 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 55 MPH AND SMALL HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF TULAROSA TO 11 MILES WEST OF TULAROSA. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE...TULAROSA...WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT...AND ALAMOGORDO. PIEPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 29 min |
| Aug 28, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 71 min |
| Aug 28, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 66 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.