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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX

June 6, 2016Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2016, 8:38 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 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 6, 2016, 8:38 PM MDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2016, 9:18 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

300 
WUUS54 KEPZ 070238
SVREPZ
NMC013-035-070330-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0021.160607T0238Z-160607T0330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
838 PM MDT MON JUN 6 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO  HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...
  EAST CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 836 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH
  OF WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AROUND
  10 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  OROGRANDE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3263 10648 3274 10614 3235 10596 3225 10637
TIME...MOT...LOC 0236Z 240DEG 49KT 3264 10612 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

NOVLAN

1 follow-up statement

586 
WWUS54 KEPZ 070318
SVSEPZ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
918 PM MDT MON JUN 6 2016

NMC013-035-070325-
/O.CAN.KEPZ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160607T0330Z/
OTERO NM-DONA ANA NM-
918 PM MDT MON JUN 6 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL OTERO AND EAST
CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM IS STILL FAIRLY
STRONG AND MAY STILL PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50-55
MPH ALONG WITH AREAS OF LOW VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST WHICH MAY
STILL POSE A THREAT TO DRIVERS ON HIGHWAY 54. CAUTION ADVISED.

LAT...LON 3263 10648 3274 10614 3235 10596 3225 10637
TIME...MOT...LOC 0312Z 240DEG 49KT 3291 10557 

$$

NOVLAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	57 min
Jun 7, 3:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	64 min
Jun 7, 4:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	49 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.