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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 28, 2025, 1:52 PM MST for Grant County, Hidalgo County, Luna County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 1, 2025, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 7 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
- Feb 28, 2025, 1:52 PM MST (20:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2025, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2025, 5:59 PM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 28, 11:01 AM MST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 11:01 AM MST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 12:43 PM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna | 29 hr |
| Feb 28, 1:52 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna and 2 more | 23 hr |
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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.