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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS El Paso, TX

July 16, 2008Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2008, 12:06 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2008, 12:06 PM MDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2008, 12:45 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2008-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2008-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 2:59 AM MDT, 9 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:59 AM MDT, 9 hours 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 11:11 AM MDT, 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1111 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008

NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-171715-
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-
1111 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING...MOST NUMEROUS OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THE STRONGEST
STORMS WILL PRODUCE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH
AND AN INCH OF RAIN WITHIN 30 MINUTES. RAINFALL TOTALS MAY REACH
AN INCH AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES WHICH WOULD RESULT IN FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
SATURDAY...DECREASING SOMEWHAT BY SUNDAY AS DRIER AIR MOVES INTO
THE AREA. THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL DECREASE AFTER
SATURDAY...BUT THE PROBABILITY OF STRONG MICROBURST WINDS WILL
INCREASE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT OR THIS OFFICE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 11:20 AM MDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
1120 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008

NMZ024-025-161800-
SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS NM-TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT NM-
1120 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY NEW MEXICO...

AT 1110 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND
HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER  OVER PORTIONS OF
NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY. STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER
HIGHWAY 70 NORTH OF MESCALERO...ACROSS HIGHWAY 82 NEAR CLOUDCROFT
AND MAYHILL...AND AROUND HIGHWAY 24 FROM NEAR SACRAMENTO TO THE
PINON VICINITY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NEAR TIMBERON.

THE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS.

MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND
PONDING OF WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE
AREA. REMEMBER NEVER TO DRIVE OR WALK ACROSS WATER COVERED ROADS BUT
INSTEAD TURN AROUND AND SEEK ALTERNATE ROUTES OF TRAVEL.

ROGASH
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 11:58 AM MDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
1158 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008

NMZ025-161845-
SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS NM-
1158 AM MDT WED JUL 16 2008

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN OTERO
COUNTY...

AT 1150 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND
HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER MOVING EASTWARD AT ABOUT 20 MPH
THROUGH NORTHEASTERN OTERO COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE ALSO PRODUCING
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE VICINITY OF
MAYHILL...SACRAMENTO...TIMBERON...PINON AND ACROSS HIGHWAYS 82 AND
24.

MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND
PONDING OF WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE
AREA. REMEMBER NEVER TO WALK OR DRIVE ACROSS WATER COVERED ROADS BUT
INSTEAD TURN AROUND AND SEEK ALTERNATE ROUTES OF TRAVEL.

ROGASH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 12:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2008Every severe thunderstorm 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.