Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Oct 21, 2007, 7:27 AM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 21, 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
- Oct 21, 2007, 7:27 AM MDT (13:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 21, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2007, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 3198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 211327 RFWEPZ RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 727 AM MDT SUN OCT 21 2007 ...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BRING RED FLAG CONDITIONS TO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH TODAY WILL TURN WINDS TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST LATE IN THE MORNING FOR ZONES 110 AND 113...AND THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE REMAINING ZONES. WIND SPEEDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM...INCREASING TO ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON - AND ACCOMPANIED BY RELATIVE HUMIDITIES THIS AFTERNOON LESS THAN 15%. THESE CRITICAL WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER...HAVE WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF THE RED FLAG WARNING FROM NOON TODAY TO 9PM THIS EVENING. NMZ110>113-TXZ055-056-212130- /O.UPG.KEPZ.FW.A.0010.071021T1800Z-071022T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0021.071021T1800Z-071022T0300Z/ SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY- CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- 727 AM MDT SUN OCT 21 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 FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE COLD FRONT ENTERING THE AREA TODAY WILL TURN WINDS TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST WHILE INCREASING TO ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS ACROSS NM FIRE WEATHER ZONES 110 AND 113 BEFORE NOON TODAY. AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO PRESS SOUTHWARD...THE REMAINING FIRE WEATHER ZONES WILL SEE THEIR WINDS SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST AND INCREASING TO ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. AFTERNOON HEATING IS EXPECTED TO HELP DROP RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS BEFORE THE COOLER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT MANAGES TO PUSH INTO THE AREA. THESE EXPECTED WEATHER CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH EXPECTED HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER TODAY...HAVE WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A RED FLAG WARNING. 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. $$ PIEPER
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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.