Alert archive / New Mexico / Fire Weather Watches in 2021
Fire Weather Watch 8, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this fire weather watch at Apr 13, 2021, 2:29 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 15, 2021, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2021, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2021, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2021, 2:18 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 344 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.