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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX

May 17, 2007Grant County, Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2007, 5:23 PM MDT for Grant County, Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2007, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2007, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grant County, NM, Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEPZ 172326
SVREPZ
NMC017-029-180030-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0021.070517T2323Z-070518T0030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
523 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO
  NORTH CENTRAL LUNA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 515 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  EAST CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF SILVER
  CITY...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS NEAR FAYWOOD AND THE CITY OF 
ROCKS STATE PARK DURING THE NEXT HOUR BUT WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER 
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3280 10787 3277 10803 3243 10795 3251 10762

$$

MACBLAIN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KEPZ 180016
SVSEPZ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
612 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

NMC017-029-180030-
/O.CON.KEPZ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070518T0030Z/
LUNA NM-GRANT NM-
612 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL GRANT AND NORTH CENTRAL LUNA COUNTIES...

AT 605 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE PREVIOUSLY WARNED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS DROPPED BELOW 
SEVERE LIMITS AND IS LIKELY PRODUCING ONLY SMALL HAIL. THE STORM WAS 
LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL LUNA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF 
DEMING...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

BARRING A SUDDEN REINTENSIFICATION THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 630 PM.

LAT...LON 3280 10787 3277 10803 3243 10795 3251 10762

$$

MACBLAIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	58 min
May 17, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2007 Every 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.