Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 22, 2012, 1:17 PM MST for 7 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2012, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 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
- Feb 22, 2012, 1:17 PM MST (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2012, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2012, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties 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), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 3638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
682 WWUS84 KEPZ 222017 RFWEPZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 117 PM MST WED FEB 22 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM THURSDAY DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WITH HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING MOVING OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND A SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL CAUSE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY. THIS WILL SET UP CONDITIONS ALLOWING WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ACROSS THE AREA. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN THE LOW TO MIDDLE TEENS COMBINED WITH THE STRONG WINDS AND HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE LOWLANDS OF SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NMZ111-112-TXZ055-056-231200- /O.UPG.KEPZ.FW.A.0003.120223T1800Z-120224T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0004.120223T1800Z-120224T0200Z/ SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY-EL PASO- HUDSPETH- 117 PM MST WED FEB 22 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM MST THURSDAY FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055...056...111 AND 112... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM MST THURSDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * EVENT: FIRE WEATHER ZONE 111 ...SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS. FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112 SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY. FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055 EL PASO... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056 HUDSPETH. * TIMING: FROM ...11 AM TO 7 PM MST THURSDAY. * WIND: WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY: RELATIVE HUMIDITY FALLING TO NEAR OR BELOW 15 PERCENT ACROSS THE LOWLANDS OF FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO. * 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 WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ PARK
1 follow-up statement
891 WWUS84 KEPZ 231325 RFWEPZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 625 AM MST THU FEB 23 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM TODAY DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WITH HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS... .AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVING OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND A SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL CAUSE A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY. THIS WILL SET UP CONDITIONS ALLOWING WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN THE LOW TO MIDDLE TEENS COMBINED WITH THE STRONG WINDS AND HIGH FIRE DANGER RATINGS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE LOWLANDS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NMZ111-112-TXZ055-056-240000- /O.CON.KEPZ.FW.W.0004.120223T1800Z-120224T0200Z/ SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY-EL PASO- HUDSPETH- 625 AM MST THU FEB 23 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST THIS EVENING DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR NEW MEXICO FIRE ZONES 111 AND 112 AND TEXAS FIRE ZONES 055 AND 056... * TIMING: FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM MST TODAY. * WIND: WEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 35 MPH AT THE 20 FOOT LEVEL. * HUMIDITY: RH FALLING BELOW 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ HARDIMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:02 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna, Otero and 1 more | 6 hr |
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.