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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS El Paso, TX

September 25, 2014Doña Ana County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2014, 4:53 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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
Sep 25, 2014, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2014, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2014-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2014-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 Sep 25, 3:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 3:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 11:23 AM MDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
1123 AM MDT THU SEP 25 2014

NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-261730-
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-
1123 AM MDT THU SEP 25 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM AND TX.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORMS WILL BE MORE FREQUENT OVER THE
GILA REGION AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS AS WELL AS HUDSPETH COUNTY.
SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...
SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. OVERALL RAIN AMOUNTS WILL
BE SPOTTY...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN FROM A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY
PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING ALONG DRAINAGES...ARROYOS AND LOW WATER
CROSSINGS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DISSIPATE LATER TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER THE HIGHER
MOUNTAINS ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN APPROACHING UPPER
LEVEL TROUGH WILL GENERATE A MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM AND RAIN
SHOWER PATTERN STARTING OUT WEST SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
WHICH WILL SPREAD TO THE EAST ON SUNDAY AND EXIT THE REGION TO THE
EAST ON MONDAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG DURING THE
WEEKEND WITH LARGER HAIL AND STRONGER WIND GUSTS POSSIBLE. TUESDAY
AND THE REMAINDER OF NEXT WEEK WILL BE DRY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OR FLOODING
TO THIS OFFICE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

LUNDEEN

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 24, 6:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant48 min
Sep 24, 6:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna62 min
Sep 24, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant40 min
Sep 24, 7:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant59 min
Sep 24, 8:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ61 min
Sep 25, 2:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant40 min
Sep 25, 2:41 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna, Sierra3 hr
Sep 25, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant47 min
Sep 25, 3:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna52 min
Sep 25, 3:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo3 hr
Sep 25, 4:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant50 min
Sep 25, 4:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant56 min
Sep 25, 4:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra45 min
Sep 25, 5:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna46 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.