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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS El Paso, TX

October 20, 2015Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 20, 2015, 11:16 AM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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: Oct 20, 2015, 11:16 AM MDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired: Oct 20, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Oct 20, 4:01 AM MDT, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 4:01 AM MDT, 7 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 19, 7:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		43 min
Oct 19, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	42 min
Oct 20, 11:51 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo, Luna	39 min
Oct 20, 12:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		51 min
Oct 20, 12:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	45 min
Oct 20, 12:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo, Luna	45 min
Oct 20, 1:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	39 min
Oct 20, 1:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	46 min
Oct 20, 1:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Oct 20, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	60 min
Oct 20, 1:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	50 min
Oct 20, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	45 min
Oct 20, 1:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Oct 20, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	40 min
Oct 20, 1:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	38 min
Oct 20, 1:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	27 min
Oct 20, 2:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	44 min
Oct 20, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	66 min
Oct 20, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	43 min
Oct 20, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	43 min
Oct 20, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	46 min
Oct 20, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	57 min
Oct 20, 3:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	49 min
Oct 20, 3:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	46 min
Oct 20, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	41 min
Oct 20, 4:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	63 min
Oct 20, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	34 min
Oct 20, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	45 min
Oct 20, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	39 min
Oct 20, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Oct 20, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	47 min
Oct 20, 5:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Oct 20, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	37 min
Oct 20, 5:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		46 min
Oct 20, 5:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	47 min

Nearby

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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.