Cool pockets of air aloft dropping down the front side of an upper high moved over a moist air mass and triggered severe thunderstorms.
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Cool pockets of air aloft dropping down the front side of an upper high moved over a moist air mass and triggered severe thunderstorms.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 24, 1:15 PM MST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 215 PM MDT SUN JUN 24 2007 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING MOSTLY DRY AND HOT WEATHER ACROSS MOST OF THE BORDERLAND UP TO MIDWEEK. THERE REMAINS A SLIGHT RISK FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY EAST OF AN ALAMOGORDO FORT HANCOCK LINE. AFTER MIDWEEK... THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL GRADUALLY ERODE SOME ALLOWING MORE LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE TO MOVE WESTWARD INTO THE BORDERLAND...WHICH IN TURN WILL LOWER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES A LITTLE AND BRING SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. && .DISCUSSION... AGAIN...VERY LITTLE CHANGE MADE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGE. STRONG PERSISTENT SUB TROPICAL RIDGING ALOFT POSITIVELY TILTED FROM ARIZ/NMEX NORTHEASTWARD MAINTAINS ITS GRIP OVER THE BORDERLAND. H5 TEMPS WILL CONTINUE IN THE -6C RANGE UP TO MIDWEEK. MEANWHILE AN UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER CENTRAL TEXAS SERVES AS A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION BUT IS UNABLE TO PUSH WESTWARD AGAINST OUR SUBTROPICAL HIGH. THUS WE REMAIN FAIRLY LOCKED INTO A STAGNANT PATTERN WITH BASICALLY AIR WITH DEW POINTS LESS THAN 40 WEST OF KTCS-KALM-FT HANCOCK LINE. ANY ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL BE IN THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE CWA AND EASTWARD PROBABLY THROUGH TUESDAY WITH SOME BUILDUPS POSSIBLE OVER THE GILA WILDERNESS DURING THE AFTN/EVENING HOURS AND DRY LTG IS POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. BY MIDWEEK BOTH NAM AND GFS SUGGEST A GRADUAL WEAKENING AND SLOW NORTH DISPLACEMENT OF THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE...PERHAPS ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE TEXAS MOISTURE AND THE LOW AND MID LEVELS TO CREEP FARTHER WEST. THUS WILL PROPORTIONATELY INCREASE POPS WESTWARD OVER THE CWA ACCORDINGLY TO THE GRADUAL DROP IN AFTN HIGH TEMPS WEDNESDAY INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK BUT NOTHING DRAMATIC SEEN AT THIS TIME. IN THE LONGER TERM...GFSLR IS STILL FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA THAT AFTER AROUND 200 HOURS OUT (AROUND JULY 2) THE SUBTROPICAL HIGH OVER THE SOUTHWEST WILL LIFT FAR ENOUGH NORTH INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES (BUT STILL INFLUENCING ARIZ/NMEX) TO ALLOW MORE EAST SOUTHEAST FLOW (VS THE NORTHEAST WE SEE NOW) ALOFT AT ALL LEVELS SUGGESTING MORE OF MONSOONAL PATTERN...AND THUS PERHAPS IN ABOUT A WEEK WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO START OUR MONSOONAL PATTERN. THUS WE CAN END THIS DISCUSSION WITH SOME LIGHT AT THE END OF THE PROVERBIAL TUNNEL. && .AVIATION... 25/00Z-26/00Z...VFR EXCEPT ISOLATED AREAS 21Z-03Z MAINLY EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE ISOLATED TSTM WITH BRIEF MVFR/MOGR TURBC... && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... EL PASO 73 101 73 101 74 / 10 0 10 0 10 SIERRA BLANCA TX 64 95 66 97 65 / 10 10 10 10 10 LAS CRUCES 69 102 69 101 70 / 10 0 10 0 10 ALAMOGORDO 64 100 64 100 65 / 10 10 10 10 10 CLOUDCROFT 49 76 50 78 51 / 10 10 10 20 20 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES 66 99 66 101 67 / 10 0 10 10 10 SILVER CITY 59 94 60 92 61 / 10 0 10 10 10 DEMING 66 102 66 101 67 / 10 0 0 0 0 LORDSBURG 67 102 67 101 68 / 10 0 0 0 0 && .EPZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 20/20 NOVLAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1100 AM MDT SUN JUN 24 2007 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-251800- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION- TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST DESERT/BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN- SOUTHERN DESERT-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- 1100 AM MDT SUN JUN 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OTERO...EAST EL PASO...HUDSPETH COUNTIES AND EAST. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY INCREASE ALL AREAS AND START TO MOVE FARTHER WEST WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SLOWLY BEGINS TO WEAKEN AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE EAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NOVLAN
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:13 UTC.
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail up to ping pong size accumulated to a 2 inch depth about 2 miles southeast of Cloudcroft. The majority of the hailstones were nickel size.
A small rope-like tornado was reported by weather observers at Holloman AFB. It was observed for 8 minutes over the Sacramento Mountains beneath a thunderstorm about 3 miles southeast of Cloudcroft. The tornado was nearly stationary while the thunderstorm moved south.
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