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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS El Paso, TX

April 11, 20255 counties in New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 11, 2025, 3:47 AM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 12, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 11, 2025, 3:47 AM MDT (09:47 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 12, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 12, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX

Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
5541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.