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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS El Paso, TX

August 12, 2017Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2017, 8:03 PM MDT for Luna 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 12, 2017, 8:03 PM MDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2017, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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

Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 397 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 12, 3:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 11:36 AM MDT, 8 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 5:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 7:30 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 7:54 PM MDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	46 min
Aug 12, 6:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 12, 6:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	29 min
Aug 12, 6:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	51 min
Aug 12, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	46 min
Aug 12, 7:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	30 min
Aug 12, 7:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	51 min
Aug 12, 8:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	3 hr
Aug 13, 12:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Aug 13, 12:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	50 min
Aug 13, 1:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		49 min
Aug 13, 1:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		46 min
Aug 13, 2:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Aug 13, 2:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	44 min
Aug 13, 2:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 13, 2:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	3 hr
Aug 13, 3:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	30 min
Aug 13, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	44 min
Aug 13, 3:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Aug 13, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	44 min
Aug 13, 4:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	40 min
Aug 13, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	35 min
Aug 13, 5:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Aug 13, 5:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Aug 13, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	19 min
Aug 12, 8:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 hr
Aug 13, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	El Paso	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2017 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017

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.