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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS El Paso, TX

June 30, 2025Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2025, 2:27 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 30, 2025, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2025, 3:01 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 11:51 AM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 11:51 AM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 1:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:11 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:23 PM MDT, 4 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
Jun 29, 6:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	119 min
Jun 29, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	34 min
Jun 29, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	27 min
Jun 29, 6:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	33 min
Jun 29, 6:44 PM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	61 min
Jun 29, 7:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Jun 29, 7:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	114 min
Jun 30, 1:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	32 min
Jun 30, 1:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jun 30, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	34 min
Jun 30, 2:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	37 min
Jun 30, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		26 min
Jun 30, 2:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jun 30, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	31 min
Jun 30, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		27 min
Jun 30, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		30 min
Jun 30, 3:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	115 min
Jun 30, 3:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		36 min
Jun 30, 3:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra	116 min
Jun 30, 3:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jun 30, 4:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	37 min
Jun 30, 5:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:41 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	2 hr
Jun 30, 5:53 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	67 min

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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.