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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS El Paso, TX

July 23, 2021Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2021, 3:26 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 23, 2021, 3:26 PM MDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2021, 3:57 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Doña Ana County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

343 
WUUS54 KEPZ 232126
SVREPZ
NMC013-232215-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0059.210723T2126Z-210723T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
326 PM MDT Fri Jul 23 2021

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

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

* Until 415 PM MDT.

* At 326 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Fairacres,
  moving east at 15 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...
  Las Cruces, Dona Ana, Mesilla, Fairacres, Picacho, Northeast Las
  Cruces and Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 10 in New Mexico between mile markers 130 and 141.
 Interstate 25 in New Mexico near mile marker 1, and between mile
markers 3 and 11.
 Highway 70 in New Mexico between mile markers 150 and 152.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3224 10697 3237 10698 3245 10673 3229 10675
      3225 10684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 264DEG 12KT 3232 10686 

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

BROWN

1 follow-up statement

464 
WWUS54 KEPZ 232157
SVSEPZ

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
357 PM MDT Fri Jul 23 2021

NMC013-232206-
/O.CAN.KEPZ.SV.W.0059.000000T0000Z-210723T2215Z/
Dona Ana NM-
357 PM MDT Fri Jul 23 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL DONA ANA 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 3224 10697 3237 10698 3245 10673 3229 10675
      3225 10684
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 264DEG 12KT 3233 10674 

$$

BROWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 10:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Jul 22, 10:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	28 min
Jul 23, 9:10 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		35 min
Jul 23, 11:38 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	6 min
Jul 23, 11:44 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 23, 12:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 23, 1:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 23, 1:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	35 min
Jul 23, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		31 min
Jul 23, 2:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Luna, Sierra	35 min
Jul 23, 4:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	18 min
Jul 23, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	23 min
Jul 23, 4:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	32 min
Jul 23, 5:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:16 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	35 min
Jul 23, 5:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	42 min
Jul 23, 5:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	34 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.