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Red Flag Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at May 26, 2016, 6:59 AM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at May 26, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2016, 6:59 AM MDT (12:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 26, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 26, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 3023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
294 WWUS84 KEPZ 261259 RFWEPZ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 659 AM MDT THU MAY 26 2016 ...CRITICAL CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE OVER EASTERN ZONES TODAY... .AN UPPER LOW WILL START TO LIFT OUT OF ARIZONA AND INTO NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO TODAY. AS IT DOES...A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL SETUP OVER THE EASTERN ZONES AND WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS. THESE WINDS IN COMBINATION WITH SINGLE DIGITS TO LOWER TEEN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NMZ112-113-TXZ055-056-270200- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FW.W.0021.160526T1800Z-160527T0200Z/ NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112 SOUTH CENTRAL LOWLANDS AND SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY/BLM/GLZ- NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 113 CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS/LINCOLN NF/LNZ- TEXAS FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055 EL PASO COUNTY-TEXAS FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056 HUDSPETH COUNTY- 659 AM MDT THU MAY 26 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055...056... 112 AND 113... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112. FIRE WEATHER ZONE 113. FIRE WEATHER ZONE 055. FIRE WEATHER ZONE 056. * WIND...WEST 20 TO 25 MPH. * HUMIDITY...6 TO 12 PERCENT. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED OVER THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ 26
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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.