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Special Weather Statement
ExpiredWest Central Tularosa Basin/White Sands; East Central Tularosa Basin/Alamogordo; Southeast Tularosa Basin
Status
Ended
Started about 1 hour ago
Ends
expired
Issued
Severity
Moderate
Urgency
Expected
Certainty
Observed
Details
At 414 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms 12 miles northeast of White Sands Missile Range Headquarters, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include... Orogrande, White Sands National Park, and White Sands Missile Range Headquarters.
This includes the following highways... Highway 70 in New Mexico between mile markers 173 and 197. Highway 54 in New Mexico between mile markers 18 and 49.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Data from the National Weather Service
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