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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2021, 1:08 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 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 27, 2021, 1:08 PM MDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2021, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
County Grant County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
983 WWUS84 KEPZ 271908 SPSEPZ Special Weather Statement National Weather Service El Paso TX 108 PM MDT Fri Aug 27 2021 NMZ401-402-271945- Southern Gila Highlands/Black Range NM-Upper Gila River Valley NM- 108 PM MDT Fri Aug 27 2021 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... At 107 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles east of Lake Roberts, moving west at 15 mph. Half inch hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Lake Roberts, Camp Thunderbird, Cooney, Sapillo Creek Valley, Upper Mimbres Valley, Rocky Canyon Campground, Sapillo Campground, Portions of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Portions of the Gila Wilderness. 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. && LAT...LON 3316 10796 3301 10794 3287 10817 3304 10822 TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 078DEG 12KT 3303 10804 $$ BROWN
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 1:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 117 min |
| Aug 27, 1:39 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 1:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 33 min | |
| Aug 27, 2:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 32 min | |
| Aug 27, 2:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 113 min |
| Aug 27, 3:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 35 min | |
| Aug 27, 3:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 34 min | |
| Aug 27, 4:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 5:08 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 5:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 23 min |
| Aug 27, 5:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 25 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.