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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS El Paso, TX

June 13, 2021Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2021, 1:38 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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 13, 2021, 1:38 PM MDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2021, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 37 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), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -421 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

184 
WUUS54 KEPZ 131938
SVREPZ
NMC035-132015-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0014.210613T1938Z-210613T2015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
138 PM MDT Sun Jun 13 2021

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

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

* Until 215 PM MDT.

* At 136 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles north of
  Elk Silver, moving east at 5 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...
  Elk Silver.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3301 10563 3321 10565 3329 10540 3303 10538
TIME...MOT...LOC 1936Z 254DEG 5KT 3312 10557 

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

Pegram

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:04 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	41 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jun 13, 1:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	39 min
Jun 13, 2:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jun 13, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	26 min
Jun 13, 5:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jun 13, 5:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	29 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	33 min
Jun 13, 5:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	36 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.