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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX

July 5, 2009Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2009, 4:54 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 51 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 5, 2009, 4:54 PM MDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2009, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Doña Ana County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 301 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 2009-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 118 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 2009-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 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
Jul 5, 4:52 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchEPZ22 hr
Jul 5, 5:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero113 min
Jul 5, 5:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana111 min

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.