Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2015, 3:02 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico; Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 5, 2015, 3:02 PM MDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2015, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Otero County, NM, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 112 days |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 349 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 38 min | |
| Jun 5, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 2:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 51 min | |
| Jun 5, 5:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.