Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at May 1, 2012, 12:56 PM MDT for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas; 8 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 2, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- May 1, 2012, 12:56 PM MDT (18:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2012, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
253 WWUS84 KEPZ 011856 RFWEPZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1256 PM MDT TUE MAY 1 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... .FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN A THREAT FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER RATINGS...ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...AND VERY LOW AFTERNOON HUMIDITY. A LEE SIDE TROUGH FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSING THE REGION FROM WEST TO EAST WILL CAUSE SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS OF 20 MPH OR MORE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. THE LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...WITH VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS...WILL CAUSE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.. NMZ110>113-TXZ055-056-021400- /O.UPG.KEPZ.FW.A.0020.120502T1900Z-120503T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0021.120502T1800Z-120503T0300Z/ SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY- CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- 1256 PM MDT TUE MAY 1 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT WEDNESDAY FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055...056... 110...111...112 AND 113... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT WEDNESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING: 1 PM TIL 9 PM MDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * WIND: SOUTHWEST TO WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY: 4 TO 9 PERCENT LOWER DESERTS TO 15 PERCENT MOUNTAINS * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
541 WWUS84 KEPZ 021255 RFWEPZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 655 AM MDT WED MAY 2 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN A THREAT FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER RATINGS...ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...AND VERY LOW AFTERNOON HUMIDITY. A LEE SIDE TROUGH FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CROSSING THE REGION FROM WEST TO EAST WILL CAUSE SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS OF 20 MPH OR MORE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH. THE LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...WITH VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS... WILL CAUSE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.. NMZ110>113-TXZ055-056-030300- /O.CON.KEPZ.FW.W.0021.120502T1800Z-120503T0300Z/ SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY- CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- 655 AM MDT WED MAY 2 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055...056...110...111...112 AND 113... * TIMING: NOON TIL 9 PM MDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * WIND: SOUTHWEST TO WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY: 4 TO 9 PERCENT LOWER DESERTS TO 15 PERCENT MOUNTAINS * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012
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.