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High Wind Watch 2, NWS El Paso, TX

March 5, 2025Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this high wind watch at Mar 5, 2025, 1:47 AM MST for Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 6, 2025, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 2025, 1:47 AM MST (08:47 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2025, 11:00 AM MST
Expired
Mar 5, 2025, 12:27 PM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 4, 10:36 PM MST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 10:36 PM MST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 2:09 AM MSTRed Flag WarningEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna, Otero and 1 more41 hr
Mar 5, 12:27 PM MSTBlowing Dust AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra31 hr
Mar 5, 12:27 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningEPZDoña Ana, Otero, Sierra31 hr
Mar 5, 12:27 PM MSTWind AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.