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Red Flag Warning 30, NWS El Paso, TX

May 5, 20085 counties in New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at May 5, 2008, 7:21 AM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 5, 2008, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
May 5, 2008, 7:21 AM MDT (13:21 UTC)
In effect from
May 5, 2008, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
May 5, 2008, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 2008-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 2008-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-483 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:21 AM MDTFire Weather WatchEPZCatron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna and 2 more23 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 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.