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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS El Paso, TX

August 28, 2016Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2016, 3:19 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 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
Aug 28, 2016, 3:19 PM MDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2016, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Doña Ana County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2016-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 201 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2016-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

997 
WUUS54 KEPZ 282119
SVREPZ
NMC013-282200-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0049.160828T2119Z-160828T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
319 PM MDT SUN AUG 28 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 318 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN RADIUM
  SPRINGS AND LEASBURG...MOVING EAST AT 15 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...
  RADIUM SPRINGS...
  LEASBURG...
  DONA ANA...
  HILL...
  PORTIONS OF JORNADA EXPERIMENTAL RANGE...
  LEASBURG DAM STATE PARK...
  AND FORT SELDEN STATE HISTORIC SITE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3239 10700 3252 10704 3266 10685 3240 10674
TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 253DEG 11KT 3246 10694 

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

CRESPO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana47 min
Aug 27, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Otero46 min
Aug 27, 6:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana112 min
Aug 27, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana26 min
Aug 27, 7:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero25 min
Aug 27, 7:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero39 min
Aug 27, 7:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 27, 7:48 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 27, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana57 min
Aug 28, 12:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
Aug 28, 1:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant3 hr
Aug 28, 1:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 28, 2:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana44 min
Aug 28, 4:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana43 min
Aug 28, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna29 min
Aug 28, 5:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero38 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.