Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2007, 2:54 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 16, 2007, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 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 20:57 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 16, 3:28 AM MDT, 11 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:28 AM MDT, 11 hours 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 149 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2007 NMZ025-162300- SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT...TIMBERON 149 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS. THIS INCLUDES...BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO...AREAS AROUND MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT... SACRAMENTO...AND TIMBERON. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF FORMING OVER AND STAYING OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME. THIS HAS ALREADY RESULTED IN ONE HOUR RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF ONE AND ONE QUARTER INCHES IN MANY LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS AREA. AS SUCH...LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. BE ESPECIALLY MINDFUL OF AREAS KNOWN TO FLOOD...NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL MAKE STREAMS RUN HIGHER AND SOONER THAN NORMAL. PIEPER
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:50 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 250 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2007 NMZ022>025-031-032-TXZ055-056-170000- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION- TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN-SOUTHERN DESERT-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SILVER CITY...TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES... ALAMOGORDO...MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT...TIMBERON...DEMING... LAS CRUCES...EL PASO...SIERRA BLANCA...DELL CITY 250 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 2007 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA... ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS...COMBINED WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...MEANS THAT LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. BE ESPECIALLY MINDFUL OF AREAS KNOWN TO FLOOD...NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL MAKE STREAMS RUN HIGHER AND SOONER THAN NORMAL. PIEPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.