Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2007, 1:27 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 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), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 021930 TOREPZ NMC013-035-TXC141-022015- /O.NEW.KEPZ.TO.W.0004.070502T1927Z-070502T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 127 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 215 PM MDT * AT 120 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ANTHONY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CHAPARRAL BY 140 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 3214 10653 3198 10663 3177 10626 3199 10612 $$ PARK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEPZ 021950 SVSEPZ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 147 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007 NMC013-035-TXC141-022015- /O.CON.KEPZ.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070502T2015Z/ EL PASO TX-DONA ANA NM-OTERO NM- 147 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OTERO...SOUTHEASTERN DONA ANA AND NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES... AT 136 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ANTHONY...OR ABOUT NEAR CANUTILLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NORTHEAST EL PASO CITY AT 200 PM EDT RURAL CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY AT 210 PM MDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3214 10653 3198 10663 3177 10626 3199 10612 $$ PIEPER
000 WWUS54 KEPZ 022011 SVSEPZ SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 209 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007 NMC013-035-TXC141-022019- /O.EXP.KEPZ.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070502T2015Z/ EL PASO TX-DONA ANA NM-OTERO NM- 209 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OTERO...SOUTHEASTERN DONA ANA AND NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 215 PM MDT... THIS STORM HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THIS STORM IS NO LONGER TORNADIC. AS SUCH...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN OTERO...SOUTHEASTERN DONA ANA AND NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. LAT...LON 3214 10653 3198 10663 3177 10626 3199 10612 $$ PIEPER
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, 1:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 37 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
Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 2007Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes 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.