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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

July 2, 2021Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2021, 5:44 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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 2, 2021, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2021, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 304 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: 385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 2, 4:57 PM MDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 4:57 PM MDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 10:48 AM MDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:44 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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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 1, 7:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	39 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, 5:48 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.