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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX

March 25, 2007Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2007, 2:32 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
Mar 25, 2007, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2415 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 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 Mar 25, 1:54 PM MDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 1:54 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 6:45 AM MDT, 7 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
645 AM MDT SUN MAR 25 2007

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-261215-
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-
645 AM MDT SUN MAR 25 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT EAST OF THE
RIO GRANDE VALLEY. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH
SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY HUDSPETH AND OTERO COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TUESDAY...WITH A FEW AREAS OF
BLOWING DUST POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:42 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
142 PM MDT SUN MAR 25 2007

NMZ024-TXZ056-260600-
TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT-HUDSPETH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALAMOGORDO...SIERRA BLANCA...DELL CITY
142 PM MDT SUN MAR 25 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS HUDSPETH AND EASTERN OTERO
COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON...

AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVING IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST HAS
HELPED TO TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN UNSTABLE
AIR ALREADY IN PLACE ACROSS HUDSPETH COUNTY AND EASTERN OTERO
COUNTY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE STRONG...WITH HAIL UP TO ONE
HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO THE
EVENING HOURS.

HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE FROM SOME STORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. THIS...COMBINED WITH THE SLOW MOTION OF THESE STORMS
COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING.

PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS...NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...OR WWW.WEATHER.GOV/ELPASO FOR UPDATES.

PIEPER

The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Every severe thunderstorm 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.