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Red Flag Warning 27, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Jun 21, 2013, 1:56 PM MDT for Catron County, Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jun 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
- Jun 21, 2013, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 22, 2013, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2013, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 Jun 21, 4:55 AM MDT, 9 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 4:55 AM MDT, 9 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:35 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | EPZ | 85 min | |
| Jun 20, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 40 min |
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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.