Dry air at the surface with some mid-level moisture and a weak upper trough combined to create thunderstorms with gusty outflow winds which also resulted in a dust storm over the Lordsburg Playa.
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Dry air at the surface with some mid-level moisture and a weak upper trough combined to create thunderstorms with gusty outflow winds which also resulted in a dust storm over the Lordsburg Playa.
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 181 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:22 UTC.
1 dust storm, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A visibility sensors on the Lordsburg Playa at mile marker 11 reported a visibility of around a quarter mile.
A gust to 63 mph was recorded at the Malone Mesonet site on the White Sands Missile Range.
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