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Red Flag Warning 24, NWS El Paso, TX

May 12, 20258 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at May 12, 2025, 2:58 PM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at May 13, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 2025, 2:58 PM MDT (20:58 UTC)
In effect from: May 13, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 13, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

Counties Catron County, NM, Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 4:00 PM MDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	1 Ese Fort Bliss, TX	Poorly constructed brick siding fell over from strong winds.
May 13, 4:30 PM MDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 58	7 W Oscuro, NM	Mesonet station WSM14 Oscura Range Camp (WSMR).
May 13, 4:30 PM MDT	NON-TSTM WND DMG	1 S Canutillo, TX	Older manufactured roofing on a house blown off by strong winds.
May 13, 4:39 PM MDT	DUST STORM	11 Nne El Paso, TX	ARC El Paso reporting visibility of less than 100 yards.
May 13, 4:46 PM MDT	DUST STORM	17 E Montana Vista, TX	Hudspeth County EM reporting visibility of less than 50 yards between mile marker 110-116 and less than 100 yards between mile marker 64-110.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 12, 2:42 PM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 2:42 PM MDT, 16 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
May 12, 1:03 PM MDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra	31 hr
May 12, 1:03 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	EPZ	Grant, Otero, Sierra	31 hr
May 12, 1:03 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra	31 hr
May 12, 2:58 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	EPZ	Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna and 2 more	54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.