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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2021, 7:21 PM MDT for Luna 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
- Jul 1, 2021, 7:21 PM MDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2021, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
County Luna County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
972 WWUS84 KEPZ 020121 SPSEPZ Special Weather Statement National Weather Service El Paso TX 721 PM MDT Thu Jul 1 2021 NMZ407-411-020200- Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin NM- Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley NM- 721 PM MDT Thu Jul 1 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN LUNA AND SOUTHWESTERN DONA ANA COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM MDT... At 720 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13 miles east of Columbus, moving west at 20 mph. Dime size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Camel Mountain. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. && LAT...LON 3186 10755 3185 10729 3179 10725 3178 10753 TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 080DEG 17KT 3181 10742 $$ JD
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:08 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 112 min |
| Jul 1, 6:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 38 min | |
| Jul 1, 6:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Luna | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 113 min |
| Jul 2, 2:33 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 14 min |
| Jul 2, 3:01 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 27 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:30 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:01 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 11:56 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 113 min |
| Jul 2, 12:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Luna | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Sierra | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 5:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 117 min |
| Jul 2, 1:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 3 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.