1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 30, 1:38 PM MST, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 238 PM MDT MON JUL 30 2001 SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA...WITH A RIDGE WESTWARD ACROSS NEW MEXICO WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WILL ALLOW A MOIST SOUTHEAST FLOW TO CONTINUE OVER THE AREA. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THROUGH THIS PERIOD. DISCUSSION... HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA BRIEFLY GETS FORCED A BIT EAST BY THE PACIFIC TROUGH...BUT RE-ESTABLISHES ITSELF WESTWARD AGAIN ON TUESDAY. AVN SHOWS HIGH BACK OVER OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE BY THURSDAY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING A WEAK VORT WELL SOUTH OF THE BIG BEND...WITH LARGER VORT/INVERTED TROUGH OVER FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS. IMAGERY ALSO SHOWING SOME SUBSIDENCE OVER THE CWA BUT BELIEVE THIS AREA WILL FADE LATER TONIGHT. AVN/ETA SIMILAR WITH BOTH FEATURES ALTHOUGH AS USUAL THE AVN BLOWS THE FIRST VORT UP BIG TIME. FIRST VORT SHOULD NOT HAVE MUCH EFFECT AS BOTH MODELS JUST SHOW HEAVY PCPN ALONG THE SIERRA MADRES TONIGHT. ETA IS SHOWING FOCUS TONIGHT IN THE EAST AS BOTH LOW LEVEL WIND AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IN THIS AREA. THINK CONVECTION WILL BE MORE OF ALL NIGHT AFFAIR HERE. OUT WEST THINGS LOOK BIT MORE STABLE...BUT WITH SOME HELP OF ARIZONA TROUGH LOOK FOR AFTERNOON AND EARLY CONVECTION FOR THE GILAS. TUESDAY...LOOK FOR ISOLATED LOWLAND THUNDERSTORMS/SCATTERED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS AS OROGRAPHIC SHOULD BE MAIN FOCUS. WEDNESDAY BOTH ETA/AVN BRING MAIN INVERTED TROUGH SOUTH OF CWA BUT LOBE OF VORT MOVES UP INTO THE SOUTHERN CWA SO WILL UP POPS MORE INTO SCATTERED CATEGORY EVERYWHERE. LONGER RANGE...MRF SHOWING UPPER HIGH CONTINUING OVER OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. NOT MUCH CHANGE FROM SHORT TERM OTHER THAN BIT STRONGER RIDGING WESTWARD WILL BRING WINDS MORE EASTERLY. WILL HAVE TO KEEP SOME WORDING OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THROUGH ENTIRE EXTENDED PACKAGE. EL PASO BB 73/ 95/ 72/ 94/ 71 21123 LAS CRUCES BB 68/ 95/ 67/ 94/ 66 21123 ALAMOGORDO BB 69/ 94/ 68/ 92/ 67 21123 CLOUDCROFT BB 47/ 71/ 46/ 70/ 46 23234 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB 68/ 93/ 67/ 91/ 66 21123 SILVER CITY BB 62/ 89/ 61/ 87/ 61 22234 DEMING BB 65/ 94/ 64/ 93/ 63 21123 LORDSBURG BB 64/ 94/ 63/ 92/ 61 21123 SIERRA BLANCA BB 67/ 93/ 660/ 91/ 65 21123 .ELP...NONE 17 HEFNER N
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 25 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:57 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An off-duty television meteorologist estimated winds gusting to 70 mph (wet microburst). A nearby mesonet site recorded a gust to 71 mph and 1.45 inches of rain in 40 minutes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2001
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