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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS El Paso, TX

July 1, 2024Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2024, 5:57 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 1, 2024, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2024, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 2:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 2:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
223 PM MDT Mon Jul 1 2024

NMZ404-405-012100-
Lowlands of the Bootheel NM-
Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley NM-
223 PM MDT Mon Jul 1 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN GRANT AND CENTRAL
HIDALGO COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM MDT...

At 223 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Windmill, moving north at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Playas, Windmill, and Pyramid Mountains.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3188 10856 3190 10867 3212 10871 3206 10841
TIME...MOT...LOC 2023Z 184DEG 15KT 3196 10861

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 3:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 4:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:18 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:22 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:46 PM MDT, 11 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
Jun 30, 6:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Jun 30, 6:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	41 min
Jun 30, 6:59 PM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	31 min
Jun 30, 7:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Luna	2 hr
Jun 30, 7:15 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	105 min
Jun 30, 7:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	115 min
Jun 30, 8:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Luna	112 min
Jul 1, 1:03 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	EPZ	Otero	23 hr
Jul 1, 12:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	36 min
Jul 1, 1:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	27 min
Jul 1, 1:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jul 1, 2:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	26 min
Jul 1, 2:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	115 min
Jul 1, 2:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	37 min
Jul 1, 2:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:17 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	43 min
Jul 1, 3:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	34 min
Jul 1, 4:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	26 min
Jul 1, 4:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Jul 1, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		27 min
Jul 1, 5:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	38 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.