Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2009, 4:17 PM MDT for Grant County, Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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 17, 2009, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2009, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 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 22:17 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, 10.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 5:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 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.