Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 13, 2014, 4:40 AM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 13, 2014, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 13, 2014, 4:40 AM MDT (10:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 13, 2014, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2014, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 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 10:43 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, 10.7 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
- 3525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
754 WWUS84 KEPZ 131040 RFWEPZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 440 AM MDT SUN APR 13 2014 ...WITH HIGH FIRE DANGER IN PLACE...CONDITIONS REMAIN CRITICALLY DRY WITH STRONG WINDS RETURNING TODAY ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS TO PRODUCE A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER WINDOW... .EXTREMELY DRY CONDITIONS...ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...AND STRONG WINDS WILL RETURN AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL RUN ABOUT 5-7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AS MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DROP INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE TEENS ACROSS THE LOWER ELEVATIONS. ANOTHER APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AS WESTERLY WINDS INCREASE INTO THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE. THE PATTERN IS NOT QUITE A CLASSIC CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER PATTERN BUT LONG-TERM DROUGHT...DRY AND ABUNDANT FUELS...AND RECENT WILDFIRE ACTIVITY COMBINED WITH THE DRY...WARM...AND WINDY CONDITIONS SUGGEST THAT LARGE FIRE GROWTH IS LIKELY WITH ANY NEW IGNITIONS. NMZ111-112-TXZ055-056-140200- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0013.140413T1900Z-140414T0200Z/ SOUTHWEST DESERTS AND LOWLANDS- SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY-EL PASO- HUDSPETH- 440 AM MDT SUN APR 13 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR ALL LOWLAND FIRE WEATHER ZONES ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. THIS INCLUDES FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055...056... 111 AND 112.. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * EVENT: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE LOWLANDS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS DUE TO WARM TEMPERATURES...A VERY DRY AIRMASS... AND WINDY CONDITIONS. * WIND: WEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH AT THE 20-FOOT LEVEL WITH OCCASIONAL GUST TO NEAR 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY ON-GOING FIRES OR NEW FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ NMZ110-113-140200- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0013.140413T1900Z-140414T0200Z/ SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- 440 AM MDT SUN APR 13 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 110 AND 113 BELOW 6500 FT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * EVENT: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE THE GILA REGION AND THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 6500FT DUE TO WARM TEMPERATURES...A VERY DRY AIRMASS...AND WINDY CONDITIONS. * WIND: WEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH AT THE 20-FOOT LEVEL WITH OCCASIONAL GUST TO NEAR 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY ON-GOING FIRES OR NEW FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXTREME FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ BIRD
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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.