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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS El Paso, TX

March 20, 20138 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 20, 2013, 9:12 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 22, 2013, 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: Mar 20, 2013, 9:12 PM MDT (03:12 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 22, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Mar 22, 2013, 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 03:16 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 00:00Z, 3.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Mar 20, 3:26 PM MDT, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 3:26 PM MDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 20, 6:15 AM MDT, 14 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
615 AM MDT WED MAR 20 2013

NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-211145-
UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-SOUTHERN GILA HIGHLANDS/BLACK RANGE-
SOUTHERN GILA FOOTHILLS/MIMBRES VALLEY-
SOUTHWEST DESERT/LOWER GILA RIVER VALLEY-LOWLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL-
UPLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN-
EASTERN BLACK RANGE FOOTHILLS-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES-
NORTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY-SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY/MESILLA VALLEY-
CENTRAL TULAROSA BASIN-SOUTHERN TULAROSA BASIN-
WEST SLOPES SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 7500 FEET-
SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 7500 FEET-
EAST SLOPES SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 7500 FEET-OTERO MESA-
WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY-EASTERN/CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY-
NORTHERN HUDSPETH HIGHLANDS/HUECO MOUNTAINS-SALT BASIN-
SOUTHERN HUDSPETH HIGHLANDS-
RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF EASTERN EL PASO/WESTERN HUDSPETH COUNTIES-
RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF EASTERN HUDSPETH COUNTY-
615 AM MDT WED MAR 20 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM AND TX.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HIGH PRESSURE WILL
BRING SEASONABLY WARM PARTLY CLOUDY WEATHER TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL COMBINE WITH DEEP SURFACE
LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS TO THE NORTHEAST TO BRING WINDY CONDITIONS
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. WEST WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 45 MPH ON
THURSDAY WITH GUSTS AROUND 55 MPH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. HIGHER GUSTS
WILL OCCUR ALONG EASTERN FACING SLOPES. BLOWING DUST WILL LOWER
VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN 3 MILES OVER SOME LOCATIONS WITH
VISIBILITIES UNDER A MILE OVER ISOLATED AREAS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

ROGASH

The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 9:12 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	EPZ	Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna and 2 more	34 hr
Mar 21, 4:04 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero	14 hr
Mar 21, 2:11 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero	31 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.