Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 30, NWS El Paso, TX
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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:21 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna and 2 more | 23 hr |
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.