Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2007, 4:39 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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 24, 2007, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2007, 5:13 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Otero County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 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 24, 2:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 215 PM MDT SUN JUN 24 2007 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING MOSTLY DRY AND HOT WEATHER ACROSS MOST OF THE BORDERLAND UP TO MIDWEEK. THERE REMAINS A SLIGHT RISK FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY EAST OF AN ALAMOGORDO FORT HANCOCK LINE. AFTER MIDWEEK... THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL GRADUALLY ERODE SOME ALLOWING MORE LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE TO MOVE WESTWARD INTO THE BORDERLAND...WHICH IN TURN WILL LOWER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES A LITTLE AND BRING SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. && .DISCUSSION... AGAIN...VERY LITTLE CHANGE MADE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGE. STRONG PERSISTENT SUB TROPICAL RIDGING ALOFT POSITIVELY TILTED FROM ARIZ/NMEX NORTHEASTWARD MAINTAINS ITS GRIP OVER THE BORDERLAND. H5 TEMPS WILL CONTINUE IN THE -6C RANGE UP TO MIDWEEK. MEANWHILE AN UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER CENTRAL TEXAS SERVES AS A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION BUT IS UNABLE TO PUSH WESTWARD AGAINST OUR SUBTROPICAL HIGH. THUS WE REMAIN FAIRLY LOCKED INTO A STAGNANT PATTERN WITH BASICALLY AIR WITH DEW POINTS LESS THAN 40 WEST OF KTCS-KALM-FT HANCOCK LINE. ANY ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL BE IN THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE CWA AND EASTWARD PROBABLY THROUGH TUESDAY WITH SOME BUILDUPS POSSIBLE OVER THE GILA WILDERNESS DURING THE AFTN/EVENING HOURS AND DRY LTG IS POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. BY MIDWEEK BOTH NAM AND GFS SUGGEST A GRADUAL WEAKENING AND SLOW NORTH DISPLACEMENT OF THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE...PERHAPS ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE TEXAS MOISTURE AND THE LOW AND MID LEVELS TO CREEP FARTHER WEST. THUS WILL PROPORTIONATELY INCREASE POPS WESTWARD OVER THE CWA ACCORDINGLY TO THE GRADUAL DROP IN AFTN HIGH TEMPS WEDNESDAY INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK BUT NOTHING DRAMATIC SEEN AT THIS TIME. IN THE LONGER TERM...GFSLR IS STILL FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA THAT AFTER AROUND 200 HOURS OUT (AROUND JULY 2) THE SUBTROPICAL HIGH OVER THE SOUTHWEST WILL LIFT FAR ENOUGH NORTH INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES (BUT STILL INFLUENCING ARIZ/NMEX) TO ALLOW MORE EAST SOUTHEAST FLOW (VS THE NORTHEAST WE SEE NOW) ALOFT AT ALL LEVELS SUGGESTING MORE OF MONSOONAL PATTERN...AND THUS PERHAPS IN ABOUT A WEEK WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO START OUR MONSOONAL PATTERN. THUS WE CAN END THIS DISCUSSION WITH SOME LIGHT AT THE END OF THE PROVERBIAL TUNNEL. && .AVIATION... 25/00Z-26/00Z...VFR EXCEPT ISOLATED AREAS 21Z-03Z MAINLY EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE ISOLATED TSTM WITH BRIEF MVFR/MOGR TURBC... && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... EL PASO 73 101 73 101 74 / 10 0 10 0 10 SIERRA BLANCA TX 64 95 66 97 65 / 10 10 10 10 10 LAS CRUCES 69 102 69 101 70 / 10 0 10 0 10 ALAMOGORDO 64 100 64 100 65 / 10 10 10 10 10 CLOUDCROFT 49 76 50 78 51 / 10 10 10 20 20 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES 66 99 66 101 67 / 10 0 10 10 10 SILVER CITY 59 94 60 92 61 / 10 0 10 10 10 DEMING 66 102 66 101 67 / 10 0 0 0 0 LORDSBURG 67 102 67 101 68 / 10 0 0 0 0 && .EPZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 20/20 NOVLAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 11:00 AM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1100 AM MDT SUN JUN 24 2007 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-251800- 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- 1100 AM MDT SUN JUN 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OTERO...EAST EL PASO...HUDSPETH COUNTIES AND EAST. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY INCREASE ALL AREAS AND START TO MOVE FARTHER WEST WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SLOWLY BEGINS TO WEAKEN AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE EAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NOVLAN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:33 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 47 min |
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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.