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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS El Paso, TX

August 3, 2008Grant County, Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2008, 4:35 PM MDT for Grant County, Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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
Aug 3, 2008, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2008, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2008-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 390 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2008-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Hidalgo37 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.