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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS El Paso, TX

July 16, 2018Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2018, 2:39 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 16, 2018, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2018, 3:13 PM MDT
In force: 34 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 20:40 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 12:00Z, 8.7 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: 476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 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 Jul 16, 1:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 1:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 11:17 AM MDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:18 PM MDT, 21 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
Jul 15, 9:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna, Sierra	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	42 min
Jul 16, 2:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	43 min
Jul 16, 5:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Jul 15, 6:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	2 hr
Jul 16, 4:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	118 min
Jul 16, 5:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2018 Every 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.