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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS El Paso, TX

August 23, 2021Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2021, 1:19 PM MDT for Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 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 23, 2021, 1:19 PM MDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2021, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hidalgo County, NM

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

157 
WUUS54 KEPZ 231919
SVREPZ
NMC023-232000-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0071.210823T1919Z-210823T2000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
119 PM MDT Mon Aug 23 2021

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Hidalgo County in southwestern New Mexico...

* Until 200 PM MDT.

* At 118 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northwest
  of Cloverdale, moving south at 5 mph.

  HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Cloverdale, Geronimo Pass and Skeleton Canyon. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3163 10905 3166 10891 3144 10880 3140 10905
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 348DEG 5KT 3157 10900 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.50 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

CRESPO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	30 min
Aug 22, 7:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	117 min
Aug 22, 10:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	119 min
Aug 22, 10:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	119 min
Aug 23, 12:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	19 min
Aug 23, 12:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 23, 12:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 23, 12:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	32 min
Aug 23, 1:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	33 min
Aug 23, 1:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 23, 1:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 23, 2:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Aug 23, 2:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 23, 2:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	117 min
Aug 23, 2:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	30 min
Aug 23, 2:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	28 min
Aug 23, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	23 min
Aug 23, 3:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 23, 3:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Aug 23, 3:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Aug 23, 3:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	38 min
Aug 23, 3:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 23, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Luna	25 min
Aug 23, 3:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 23, 3:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	35 min
Aug 23, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Luna	27 min
Aug 23, 4:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	114 min
Aug 23, 4:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	16 min
Aug 23, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	28 min
Aug 23, 4:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	37 min
Aug 23, 4:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	106 min
Aug 23, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	35 min
Aug 23, 4:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	21 min
Aug 23, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Aug 23, 5:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Aug 23, 5:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Otero	111 min
Aug 23, 5:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 23, 5:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	112 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.