Dust Storm Warning and Dust Advisory
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Dust Storm Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
444 PM MDT Thu Jul 11 2024

NMC023-120045-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.DS.W.0016.240711T2244Z-240712T0045Z/
Hidalgo NM-
444 PM MDT Thu Jul 11 2024

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

* Dust Storm Warning for...
  West central Hidalgo County in southwestern New Mexico...

* Until 645 PM MDT.

* At 437 PM MDT, an area of blowing dust was over Steins.

  HAZARD...Less than a quarter mile visibility with strong winds up
           to 55 mph.

  SOURCE...Detected by National Weather Service meteorologists.

  IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.

* This includes Interstate 10 in New Mexico between mile markers 1
  and 23.

Locations impacted include...
Steins, Lordsburg, Road Forks, Lordsburg Playa, and Shakespeare.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Motorists should not drive into a dust storm. PULL ASIDE STAY ALIVE!

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LAT...LON 3226 10905 3238 10871 3232 10868 3217 10905
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 180DEG 0KT 3229 10886

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