Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 27, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 29, 2008, 12:57 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 30, 2008, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2008, 12:57 PM MDT (18:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2008, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2008, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4318 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 29, 3:55 AM MDT, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 3:55 AM MDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 6:08 AM MDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 608 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2008 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-301215- 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- 608 AM MDT TUE APR 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG WIND EVENT EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AS AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL COMBINE WITH A STRONG SURFACE LOW. THE WINDS WILL ALSO PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WITH ROAD CLOSURE WEST OF LAS CRUCES...AROUND DEMING ON TO THE ARIZONA STATE LINE POSSIBLE. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY...THOUGH BLOWING DUST IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS BIG A PROBLEM ON THURSDAY. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY WELL SEE MOSTLY SUNNY DRY CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 3:12 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | EPZ | 31 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2008Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2008Every red flag warning in 2008
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.