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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS El Paso, TX

June 28, 2007Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2007, 2:51 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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 28, 2007, 2:51 PM MDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2007, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grant County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 156 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 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 28, 3:40 AM MDT, 11 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:40 AM MDT, 11 hours 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 11:08 AM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1108 AM MDT THU JUN 28 2007

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-291715-
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-
1108 AM MDT THU JUN 28 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
THIS IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY WILL AGAIN SEE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. FOR THE WEEKEND AND
BEYOND WE WILL SEE A LITTLE DRIER CONDITIONS...BUT THERE WILL
STILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero55 min
Jun 28, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant51 min
Jun 28, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Luna43 min
Jun 28, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra57 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.