Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2013, 2:34 PM MDT for Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2013, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2013, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hidalgo County, NM
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 31, 2:57 PM MDT, 23 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:57 PM MDT, 23 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 118 min |
| Aug 1, 2:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 111 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2013Every severe thunderstorm 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.