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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX

May 16, 2024Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2024, 10:47 AM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 16 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 16, 2024, 10:47 AM MDT (16:47 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2024, 11:03 AM MDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 341 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1178 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 10:41 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero34 min
May 16, 12:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero29 min
May 16, 12:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero55 min
May 16, 12:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero29 min
May 16, 11:48 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHudspeth27 min
May 16, 11:56 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso34 min

Nearby

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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.