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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS El Paso, TX

September 13, 2025Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2025, 5:54 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Sep 13, 2025, 5:54 PM MDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Sep 13, 2025, 6:33 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 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 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 Sep 13, 5:43 PM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 5:43 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 13, 2:12 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
212 PM MDT Sat Sep 13 2025

NMZ404-405-132100-
Lowlands of the Bootheel NM-
Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley NM-
212 PM MDT Sat Sep 13 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN GRANT AND WEST
CENTRAL HIDALGO COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM MDT...

At 212 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southwest of Lordsburg, moving northeast at 50 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Lordsburg, Steins, Cotton City, Road Forks, Lordsburg Playa, Granite
Gap, Shakespeare, and Pyramid Mountains.

This includes Interstate 10 in New Mexico between mile markers 1 and
31.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3225 10905 3244 10864 3232 10851 3205 10905
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 235DEG 41KT 3226 10880

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

TSB

Special weather statement, Sep 13, 2:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
242 PM MDT Sat Sep 13 2025

NMZ408-409-132115-
Eastern Black Range Foothills NM-Sierra County Lakes NM-
242 PM MDT Sat Sep 13 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY
THROUGH 315 PM MDT...

At 242 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
San Miguel, moving east at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Cuchillo, San Miguel, and Alamosa Canyon.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3314 10751 3328 10755 3334 10732 3316 10727
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 264DEG 19KT 3323 10747

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

TSB

Special weather statement, Sep 13, 3:51 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 13, 4:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 4:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 5:44 PM MDT, 10 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
Sep 12, 9:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	29 min
Sep 12, 9:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	4 hr
Sep 13, 4:21 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	114 min
Sep 13, 10:07 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	3 hr
Sep 13, 12:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Sep 13, 1:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	28 min
Sep 13, 1:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	47 min
Sep 13, 2:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	48 min
Sep 13, 2:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	33 min
Sep 13, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	30 min
Sep 13, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	25 min
Sep 13, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	23 min
Sep 13, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Sierra	34 min
Sep 13, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	19 min
Sep 13, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo, Luna	41 min
Sep 13, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Sierra	24 min
Sep 13, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	32 min
Sep 13, 3:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	24 min
Sep 13, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	30 min
Sep 13, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	20 min
Sep 13, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	45 min
Sep 13, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	43 min
Sep 13, 4:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	37 min
Sep 13, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero, Sierra	46 min
Sep 13, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	26 min
Sep 13, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	23 min
Sep 13, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	36 min
Sep 13, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	44 min
Sep 13, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	50 min
Sep 13, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	24 min
Sep 13, 5:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	31 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.