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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS El Paso, TX

August 3, 2021Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2021, 5:17 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 28 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, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2021, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 28 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 Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.

300 
WUUS54 KEPZ 032317
SVREPZ
NMC017-032345-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0067.210803T2317Z-210803T2345Z/

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

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

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

* Until 545 PM MDT.

* At 517 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southwest
  of Gila Hot Springs, moving south 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...
  Portions of the Gila Wilderness.

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 3315 10832 3316 10826 3308 10817 3304 10837
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 343DEG 7KT 3311 10829 

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

$$

DEL

1 follow-up statement

801 
WWUS54 KEPZ 032336
SVSEPZ

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

NMC017-032346-
/O.EXP.KEPZ.SV.W.0067.000000T0000Z-210803T2345Z/
Grant NM-
536 PM MDT Tue Aug 3 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 545 PM MDT...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire.

LAT...LON 3315 10832 3316 10826 3308 10817 3304 10837
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 343DEG 7KT 3308 10828 

$$

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, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	39 min
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, 5:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	2 hr

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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.