Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS El Paso, TX

August 3, 2021Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2021, 3:21 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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: Aug 3, 2021, 3:21 PM MDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2021, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Grant County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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 152 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

888 
WUUS54 KEPZ 032121
SVREPZ
NMC017-032200-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0066.210803T2121Z-210803T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
321 PM MDT Tue Aug 3 2021

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Eastern Grant County in southwestern New Mexico...

* Until 400 PM MDT.

* At 321 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near San Lorenzo,
  and is nearly stationary.

  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...
  San Lorenzo, Sherman and San Juan. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3263 10798 3275 10805 3282 10799 3280 10782
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 224DEG 2KT 3277 10797 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

DEL

1 follow-up statement

142 
WWUS54 KEPZ 032144
SVSEPZ

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
344 PM MDT Tue Aug 3 2021

NMC017-032200-
/O.CON.KEPZ.SV.W.0066.000000T0000Z-210803T2200Z/
Grant NM-
344 PM MDT Tue Aug 3 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM MDT
FOR EASTERN GRANT COUNTY...

At 343 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near San Lorenzo,
and is nearly stationary.

HAZARD...Quarter size hail and winds up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

Locations impacted include...
San Lorenzo and San Juan. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3263 10798 3275 10805 3282 10799 3281 10789
      3270 10792
TIME...MOT...LOC 2143Z 224DEG 2KT 3278 10796 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH

$$

DEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	30 min
Aug 2, 6:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		23 min
Aug 2, 7:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	113 min
Aug 2, 8:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Aug 2, 8:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Aug 3, 12:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 3, 2:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 3, 2:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	116 min
Aug 3, 2:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 3, 3:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	54 min
Aug 3, 4:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	117 min
Aug 3, 4:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	115 min
Aug 3, 5:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Aug 3, 5:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	28 min
Aug 3, 5:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2021 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2021

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.