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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2016, 3:03 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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 23, 2016, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2016, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
County Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
967 WWUS84 KEPZ 232103 SPSEPZ SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 303 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2016 NMZ409-232145- SIERRA COUNTY LAKES NM- 303 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM MDT... AT 303 PM MDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON RADAR NEAR TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES... ELEPHANT BUTTE... WILLIAMSBURG... ROCK HOUSE... NORTH MONTICELLO POINT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3303 10712 3308 10732 3342 10725 3333 10695 TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 197DEG 13KT 3313 10720 $$ TRIPOLI
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 12:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 38 min | |
| Jun 23, 2:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 43 min | |
| Jun 23, 5:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 3:33 AM MDT | Heat Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 26 hr |
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.