Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS El Paso, TX
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.
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 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.
- 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
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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</html>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.