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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2015, 3:00 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2015, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2015, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Grant County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
752 WUUS54 KEPZ 162100 SVREPZ NMC017-162130- /O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0021.150616T2100Z-150616T2130Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 300 PM MDT TUE JUN 16 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 330 PM MDT * AT 258 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER ARENAS VALLEY...OR NEAR SILVER CITY...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SILVER CITY...BAYARD...SANTA CLARA...HURLEY...LITTLE WALNUT VILLAGE...NORTH HURLEY...PINOS ALTOS...ARENAS VALLEY...FORT BAYARD...COBRE...TYRONE...MCMILLAN CAMPGROUND AND CHERRY CREEK CAMPGROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. && LAT...LON 3301 10839 3301 10814 3260 10805 3260 10843 TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 350DEG 31KT 3276 10821 $$ FAUSETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 3:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 4:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 4:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 5:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 62 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.