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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS El Paso, TX

November 2, 2014Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 2014, 1:59 PM MST for Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: Nov 2, 2014, 1:59 PM MST (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 2014, 2:30 PM MST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 26 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Nov 2, 3:15 AM MST, 10 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 3:15 AM MST, 10 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 2, 5:45 AM MST, 8 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
645 AM MDT SUN  NOV 02 2014

NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-031130-
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-
645 AM MDT SUN NOV 02 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH MOST ACTIVITY THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO
60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS
POSSIBLE WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS GREATER THAN AN INCH OVER A FEW
LOCATIONS. ALSO BREEZY TO WINDY ACROSS THE REGION WITH GUSTS AROUND
30 TO 40 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXPECTED ON
MONDAY WITH UP TO A QUARTER INCH OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT TO MONITOR FOR
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS.

ROGASH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 2, 2:17 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	43 min
Nov 2, 2:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	29 min
Nov 2, 3:44 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	31 min
Nov 2, 4:42 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2014 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every 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.