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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS El Paso, TX

July 11, 2014Doña Ana County, Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2014, 4:38 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 36 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
Jul 11, 2014, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2014, 5:14 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 340 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2014-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 194 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2014-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 1:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo3 hr
Jul 11, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Hidalgo31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.