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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS El Paso, TX

August 11, 2006Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2006, 1:20 PM MDT for Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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 11, 2006, 1:20 PM MDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2006, 1:45 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2006-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 331 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2006-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 11, 2:30 AM MDT, 10 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:30 AM MDT, 10 hours 50 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 10:30 AM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1030 AM MDT FRI AUG 11 2006

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-120630-
SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION-
TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-
SOUTHWEST DESERT/BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN-
SOUTHERN DESERT-EL PASO-HUDSPETH-
1030 AM MDT FRI AUG 11 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
DEEP MOISTURE REMAINS JUST TO THE WEST...OVER EASTERN ARIZONA AND
EXTREME WESTERN NEW MEXICO.  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
HEAVY RAIN...ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE BOOTHEEL...SOUTHWEST
DESERTS...AND GILA AREAS OF SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO. OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS...ONLY ISOLATED STORMS ARE EXPECTED.
SCATTERED STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO
MOUNTAINS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE
HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
A GENERAL MONSOONAL PATTERN WILL CONTINUE. FOR THE WEEKEND THE
MOISTURE PLUME IS FORECAST TO SHIFT BACK TOWARD SOUTH CENTRAL NEW
MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS...AND REMAIN OVER THE AREA INTO NEXT WEEK.

STORM CHANCES...AREAL COVERAGE OF RAIN...AND FLOODING POTENTIAL ARE
EXPECTED TO INCREASE EARLY NEXT WEEK AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE
SLOWLY MOVES INTO THE REGION FROM THE EAST.

ANY STORM THROUGH THIS PERIOD MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND LOCAL
FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS MAY BE CALLED UPON TO PROVIDE LOCAL WEATHER INFORMATION.
SPOTTERS SHOULD CONTACT THE EL PASO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IF SEVERE WEATHER OR HEAVY RAIN OCCURS AT THEIR LOCATION.

TRIPOLI

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:04 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
104 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 2006

NMZ025-112215-
SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT...TIMBERON
104 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 2006

...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF OTERO COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY IS
EXHIBITING VERY SLOW MOVEMENT AND MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING.

IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL...THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL.

FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE...NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AND
STREAM BEDS...AND IN OTHER LOW LYING AREAS IS A POSSIBILITY.
THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF
ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.

PIEPER
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:04 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
104 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 2006

NMZ025-112215-
SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT...TIMBERON
104 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 2006

...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF OTERO COUNTY. AS OF 104 PM
MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED OVER PORTIONS OF HIGHWAYS
130...82...AND 24 EAST OF CLOUDCROFT. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXHIBITING
VERY SLOW MOVEMENT AND MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL CREATE THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. FURTHER
DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED OVER THE GILAS THIS AFTERNOON.

IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL...THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL.

FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE...NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AND
STREAM BEDS...AND IN OTHER LOW LYING AREAS IS A POSSIBILITY.
THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF
ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.

PIEPER

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.