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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2025, 1:04 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 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
- May 29, 2025, 1:04 PM MDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2025, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 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 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1395 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 10:49 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 26 min |
| May 29, 11:18 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 27 min | |
| May 29, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 45 min |
| May 29, 2:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 41 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.