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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX

June 12, 2021Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2021, 2:38 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 21 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 12, 2021, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2021, 2:59 PM MDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 5195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

623 
WUUS54 KEPZ 122038
SVREPZ
NMC035-122115-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0011.210612T2038Z-210612T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
238 PM MDT Sat Jun 12 2021

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Central Otero County in south central New Mexico...

* Until 315 PM MDT.

* At 237 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Timberon,
  moving southwest at 10 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Timberon and The Otero Mesa. 

This includes Highway 54 in New Mexico near mile marker 51.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3272 10571 3256 10558 3233 10579 3269 10601
TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 060DEG 9KT 3260 10572 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Pegram

1 follow-up statement

123 
WWUS54 KEPZ 122059
SVSEPZ

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
259 PM MDT Sat Jun 12 2021

NMC035-122109-
/O.CAN.KEPZ.SV.W.0011.000000T0000Z-210612T2115Z/
Otero NM-
259 PM MDT Sat Jun 12 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

LAT...LON 3272 10571 3256 10558 3233 10579 3269 10601
TIME...MOT...LOC 2056Z 060DEG 9KT 3257 10578 

$$

Pegram

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 2:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	45 min
Jun 12, 2:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	26 min
Jun 12, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		30 min
Jun 12, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	33 min
Jun 12, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	29 min
Jun 12, 5:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	43 min

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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.