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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS El Paso, TX

May 20, 2023Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2023, 4:46 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 20, 2023, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2023, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 336 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2023-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2023-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 12:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
May 20, 12:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra50 min
May 20, 2:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo47 min
May 20, 3:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant42 min
May 20, 4:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo3 hr
May 20, 4:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna31 min
May 20, 4:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna34 min
May 20, 5:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna42 min
May 20, 5:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna2 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.