Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2007, 1:08 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2007, 1:08 PM MDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM, El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2292 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEPZ 021909 TOREPZ NMC013-035-TXC141-021945- /O.NEW.KEPZ.TO.W.0003.070502T1908Z-070502T1945Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 108 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CHAPARRAL... EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ANTHONY... * UNTIL 145 PM MDT * AT 1258 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR ANTHONY... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CHAPARRAL BY 125 PM MDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3217 10668 3199 10673 3190 10640 3212 10634 $$ PARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 27 min |
| May 2, 1:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 48 min |
| May 2, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Otero | 44 min |
| May 2, 1:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 54 min |
| May 2, 1:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 117 min |
| May 2, 1:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 37 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.