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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2024, 3:11 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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 2, 2024, 3:11 PM MDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2024, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 7:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Luna | 90 min |
| Jul 1, 7:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 23 min |
| Jul 1, 7:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 3:13 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Otero | 21 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 1:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:49 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 116 min |
| Jul 2, 1:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 113 min |
| Jul 2, 3:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 26 min | |
| Jul 2, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 31 min |
| Jul 2, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 3:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 36 min | |
| Jul 2, 4:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 4:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 4:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 115 min |
| Jul 2, 5:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 5:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 5:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Luna | 2 hr |
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.