Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2021, 3:53 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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 4, 2021, 3:53 PM MDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2021, 4:18 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Grant County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
022
WUUS54 KEPZ 042153
SVREPZ
NMC017-042245-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0068.210804T2153Z-210804T2245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
353 PM MDT Wed Aug 4 2021
The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
East central Grant County in southwestern New Mexico...
* Until 445 PM MDT.
* At 353 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over San Juan,
moving southwest at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Faywood, San Lorenzo, Sherman, San Juan and City Of Rocks State
Park.
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 3280 10776 3260 10778 3260 10792 3259 10793
3267 10811 3285 10793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 022DEG 15KT 3276 10790
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH
$$
BROWN1 follow-up statement
262
WWUS54 KEPZ 042218
SVSEPZ
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
418 PM MDT Wed Aug 4 2021
NMC017-042228-
/O.CAN.KEPZ.SV.W.0068.000000T0000Z-210804T2245Z/
Grant NM-
418 PM MDT Wed Aug 4 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However gusty winds are
still possible with this thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3280 10776 3260 10778 3260 10792 3259 10793
3267 10811 3285 10793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 022DEG 15KT 3266 10795
$$
BROWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 115 min |
| Aug 4, 3:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 53 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.