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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS El Paso, TX

June 24, 2007Otero County, New Mexico

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.

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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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 174 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 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
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

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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 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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 3:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero47 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.