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Dust Storm Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX

March 3, 2025Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this dust storm warning at Mar 3, 2025, 1:14 PM MST for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 91 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
Mar 3, 2025, 1:14 PM MST (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2025, 2:45 PM MST
In force
91 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dust storm 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 dust storm warning went out at Mar 3, 10:40 AM MST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 10:40 AM MST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 6:31 AM MSTBlowing Dust AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra14 hr
Mar 3, 8:35 AM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna85 min
Mar 3, 8:58 AM MSTDust Storm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Luna62 min
Mar 3, 9:32 AM MSTDust Storm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Luna88 min
Mar 3, 9:53 AM MSTDust Storm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Luna67 min
Mar 3, 10:38 AM MSTDust Storm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Otero67 min
Mar 3, 11:08 AM MSTDust Storm WarningEPZOtero52 min
Mar 3, 11:43 AM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZOtero92 min
Mar 3, 11:52 AM MSTDust Storm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Otero83 min
Mar 3, 11:32 AM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth118 min

Nearby

Dust Storm Warnings in New Mexico, 2025Dust Storm Warnings in Texas, 2025Every dust storm warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.