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Special Weather Statement, NWS El Paso, TX

June 25, 2026Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2026, 7:21 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2026, 7:21 PM MDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2026, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 25, 6:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	25 min
Jun 25, 6:12 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	63 min
Jun 25, 6:40 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	65 min
Jun 25, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	61 min
Jun 25, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	57 min
Jun 26, 1:21 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	EPZ	Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna and 2 more	67 hr
Jun 26, 5:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	85 min
Jun 26, 5:50 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	85 min
Jun 25, 7:29 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	46 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.