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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2025, 6:20 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 12, 2025, 6:20 PM MDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2025, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 12, 5:22 PM MDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 5:22 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 12, 7:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 53 min |
| Jul 12, 7:24 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 7:56 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 64 min |
| Jul 12, 10:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 90 min | |
| Jul 13, 1:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 17 min |
| Jul 13, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 2:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 2:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 2:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 31 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 3:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 4:30 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Luna | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hidalgo | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 4:42 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | EPZ | Hidalgo | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 5:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hidalgo | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:18 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Luna | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Sierra | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 5:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 5:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 47 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.