Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS El Paso, TX
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 4:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 59 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.