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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX

March 22, 20138 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 22, 2013, 7:33 AM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 23, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT. 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
Mar 22, 2013, 7:33 AM MDT (13:33 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 23, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2013, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
8 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 13:35 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, 1.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2013-03-22Temperature 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2013-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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 22, 3:52 AM MDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 3:52 AM MDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 22, 4:38 AM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
438 AM MDT FRI MAR 22 2013

NMZ404>407-410-411-413-417-TXZ418>424-231045-
SOUTHWEST DESERT/LOWER GILA RIVER VALLEY-LOWLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL-
UPLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN-
NORTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY-SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY/MESILLA VALLEY-
SOUTHERN TULAROSA BASIN-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-
438 AM MDT FRI MAR 22 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

WIND ADVISORY TODAY FROM 2 PM TO 9 PM. WEST WINDS WILL HAVE
SUSTAINED SPEEDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH THIS AFTERNOON
AND EARLY THIS EVENING. BLOWING DUST WILL LOWER VISIBILITIES TO
LESS THAN A MILE OVER A FEW AREAS.

THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND WARM
TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN VERY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

WINDY ON SATURDAY WITH GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING. BLOWING DUST WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN
A MILE OVER A FEW AREAS. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL
ALSO EXIST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

NMZ401>403-408-409-412-414>416-231045-
UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-SOUTHERN GILA HIGHLANDS/BLACK RANGE-
SOUTHERN GILA FOOTHILLS/MIMBRES VALLEY-
EASTERN BLACK RANGE FOOTHILLS-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES-
CENTRAL TULAROSA BASIN-
WEST SLOPES SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 7500 FEET-
SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 7500 FEET-
EAST SLOPES SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 7500 FEET-
438 AM MDT FRI MAR 22 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

WEST WINDS WILL HAVE SUSTAINED SPEEDS FROM 20 TO 30 MPH WITH
GUSTS TO 45 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. BLOWING
DUST WILL LOWER VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A MILE OVER A ISOLATED
AREAS.

THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND WARM
TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN VERY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

WINDY ON SATURDAY WITH GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING. BLOWING DUST WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN
A MILE OVER A FEW AREAS. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL
ALSO EXIST.

.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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 3:57 PM MDTWind AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra28 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2013Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2013Every red flag warning in 2013

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.