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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

April 4, 2025Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this winter storm warning at Apr 4, 2025, 6:38 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 5, 2025, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 16 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: Apr 4, 2025, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 5, 2025, 12:00 AM MDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2025, 4:18 PM MDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -202 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Apr 4, 5:53 PM MDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 5:53 PM MDT, 45 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
Apr 5, 2:28 AM MDT	Freeze Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra	31 hr
Apr 5, 11:09 AM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Apr 5, 11:21 AM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo, Luna	84 min

Nearby

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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.