Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2021, 8:15 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 15, 2021, 8:15 PM MDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2021, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
507
WUUS54 KEPZ 160215
SVREPZ
NMC013-035-160245-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.SV.W.0092.210916T0215Z-210916T0245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
815 PM MDT Wed Sep 15 2021
The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Western Otero County in south central New Mexico...
Eastern Dona Ana County in south central New Mexico...
* Until 845 PM MDT.
* At 815 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast
of White Sands Missile Range Headquarters, moving southeast 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.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
western Otero and eastern Dona Ana Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately.
Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can
hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3236 10648 3241 10638 3231 10620 3221 10642
TIME...MOT...LOC 0215Z 323DEG 10KT 3233 10637
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
DELThe office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 39 min |
| Sep 15, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 43 min |
| Sep 15, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 39 min |
| Sep 15, 7:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 27 min |
| Sep 15, 8:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 32 min |
| Sep 15, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 40 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.