Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 20, 2007, 9:05 AM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 20, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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 20, 2007, 9:05 AM MDT (15:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2007, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM, Sierra County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KEPZ 201505 RFWEPZ RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 905 AM MDT FRI APR 20 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT LOWLANDS OF SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...WITH VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER RATINGS... .AN APPROACHING PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...WILL SPREAD STRONGER WINDS AND MORE DRY AIR ACROSS THESE AREAS. BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS OVER 20 MPH...COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS AND VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER RATINGS...WILL LIKELY CAUSE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NMZ110-111-202315- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0013.070420T1800Z-070421T0300Z/ SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- 905 AM MDT FRI APR 20 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY 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 NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE DRY CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THE PAST FEW DAYS...REMAIN TODAY AS SYSTEM SPREADS MORE DRY AIR ACROSS NEW MEXICO. PRONOUNCED DAY-TIME HEATING WILL HELP EFFICIENTLY MIX STRENGTHENING WINDS ALOFT DOWN TO THE SURFACE BEGINNING LATER THIS MORNING. 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. $$ TRIPOLI
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 1:03 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | EPZ | 29 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007
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.