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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS El Paso, TX

May 18, 2007Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2007, 7:13 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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
May 18, 2007, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 2007, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Doña Ana County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2007-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2007-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 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 May 18, 3:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 6:50 AM MDT, 12 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
650 AM MDT FRI MAY 18 2007

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-191300-
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-
650 AM MDT FRI MAY 18 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. THE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN
ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE NEAR
STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH
SUNDAY. A FEW OF THEM MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. DRY
CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS MAY BE CALLED ON FOR REPORTS TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 2:28 PM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 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.