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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS El Paso, TX

December 15, 2010Lincoln County, Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Dec 15, 2010, 6:46 AM MST for Lincoln County, Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 15, 2010, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 6 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
Dec 15, 2010, 6:46 AM MST (13:46 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 15, 2010, 11:00 AM MST
Expired
Dec 15, 2010, 5:00 PM MST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

Counties Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:49 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 347 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-12-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-12-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
5368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 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
Dec 15, 4:51 AM MSTWind AdvisoryEPZ12 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010

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.