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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS El Paso, TX
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 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.
- 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
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 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
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 6:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 48 min |
| Sep 24, 6:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 62 min |
| Sep 24, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 7:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 59 min |
| Sep 24, 8:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 61 min | |
| Sep 25, 2:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 40 min |
| Sep 25, 2:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Luna, Sierra | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant | 47 min |
| Sep 25, 3:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 52 min |
| Sep 25, 3:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 4:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 50 min |
| Sep 25, 4:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 56 min |
| Sep 25, 4:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 45 min |
| Sep 25, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 46 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.