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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS El Paso, TX

June 13, 2018Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2018, 2:20 PM MDT for Sierra 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2018, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2018, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 2018-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 513 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2018-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 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
513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 Jun 13, 5:11 AM MDT, 9 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 5:11 AM MDT, 9 hours 9 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:25 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:34 PM MDT, 46 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:10 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 12:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero51 min
Jun 13, 12:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ43 min
Jun 13, 1:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna50 min
Jun 13, 1:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ41 min
Jun 13, 2:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra50 min
Jun 13, 2:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra50 min
Jun 13, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna45 min
Jun 13, 2:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra43 min
Jun 13, 2:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna45 min
Jun 13, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna43 min
Jun 13, 2:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra51 min
Jun 13, 3:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra43 min
Jun 13, 3:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra46 min
Jun 13, 3:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero117 min
Jun 13, 3:35 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero115 min
Jun 13, 3:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna49 min
Jun 13, 3:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna3 hr
Jun 13, 4:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Sierra3 hr
Jun 13, 4:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra45 min
Jun 13, 4:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ45 min
Jun 13, 4:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Sierra63 min
Jun 13, 4:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Jun 13, 5:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero46 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna41 min
Jun 13, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero41 min
Jun 13, 5:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2018Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.