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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 7, 2013, 2:00 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 8, 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
- Apr 7, 2013, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 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 20:04 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, 8.0 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
- 3101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 7, 3:22 AM MDT, 10 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 3:22 AM MDT, 10 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 7, 4:05 AM MDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 405 AM MDT SUN APR 7 2013 NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-081230- 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- 405 AM MDT SUN APR 7 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM AND TX. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ONLY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EFFECTS TODAY WILL BE DRY AND BREEZY AFTERNOON CONDITIONS ELEVATING FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. WEST WINDS WILL GUST NEAR 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON WITH NEAR RED FLAG CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON AND MONDAY EVENING. VERY WINDY ON MONDAY WITH SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS 35 TO 45 MPH AND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. BLOWING DUST WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A QUARTER MILE OVER A FEW LOCATIONS CAUSING DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. THE WINDS MAY ALSO CAUSE DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES AND EVEN BUILDINGS. A DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER SITUATION WILL ALSO EXIST WITH RED FLAG CONDITIONS OCCURRING. WINDY AGAIN TUESDAY WITH WIND GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. THERE WILL ALSO BE A FEW RAIN AND HIGH MOUNTAIN SNOW SHOWERS MONDAY NIGHT...TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT WITH PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS GENERALLY LIGHT. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 3:10 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 30 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:10 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra | 37 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:10 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 30 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.