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Red Flag Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX

April 17, 20065 counties in New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 17, 2006, 6:18 AM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 17, 2006, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2006, 6:18 AM MDT (12:18 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2006, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 17, 2006, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:21 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 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 
WWUS84 KEPZ 171218
RFWEPZ

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
618 AM MDT MON APR 17 2006

...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TIL 9 PM MDT MONDAY FOR
ZONE 110 AND ZONE 113 IN SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO FOR LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS WITH FIRE DANGER RATING OF HIGH OR
GREATER...

.CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY FROM 1 PM TO 9 PM
MONDAY IN THE GILA REGION AND IN THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS OF
SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO. RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO LESS THAN
15 PERCENT BY EARLY AFTERNOON WITH WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF
15 TO 25 MPH GUSTING NEAR 35 MPH.

NMZ110-113-180300-
/O.UPG.KEPZ.FW.A.0015.060417T1900Z-060418T0300Z/
/O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0021.060417T1900Z-060418T0300Z/
SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-
618 AM MDT MON APR 17 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM
MDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS
ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS
AFTERNOON TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS 
NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE GILA REGION AND THE
SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. EXPECT
RELATIVE HUMIDITY TO FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT BY EARLY AFTERNOON 
WITH SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS GREATER THAN 20 MPH AND FIRE DANGER
RATINGS OF HIGH OR GREATER FROM 1 PM UNTIL 9 PM MDT MONDAY.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$

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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.