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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS El Paso, TX

July 11, 2007Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2007, 1:37 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 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
Jul 11, 2007, 1:37 PM MDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2007, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
38 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 19:41 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 2007-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 268 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2007-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Jul 11, 3:20 AM MDT, 10 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:20 AM MDT, 10 hours 17 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 11:15 AM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1115 AM MDT WED JUL 11 2007

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-121645-
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-
1115 AM MDT WED JUL 11 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 THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LOCAL
HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS...ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
A PERSISTENT PATTERN OF SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND NIGHT TIME
THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS MORE ISOLATED
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 12:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1229 PM MDT WED JUL 11 2007

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-120030-
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-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SILVER CITY...TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES...
ALAMOGORDO...MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT...TIMBERON...LORDSBURG...
DEMING...LAS CRUCES...EL PASO...SIERRA BLANCA...DELL CITY
1229 PM MDT WED JUL 11 2007

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING NORTHWEST OVER FAR WEST TEXAS
AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER OTERO...EL PASO...AND HUDSPETH
COUNTIES ARE DEVELOPING AND MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWEST. ANOTHER AREA
OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY IS ALSO MOVING SLOWLY
NORTHWEST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY
ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS AN
EASTERLY WAVE PASSES OVER THE AREA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF
GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF
INCH...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. HEAVY RAIN WITH
THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AND
SMALL STREAMS...AS WELL AS PONDING AND FLOWING WATER ACROSS AREA
ROADS.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES.

PARK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 4:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero2 hr
Jul 11, 2:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZEl Paso59 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.