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Red Flag Warning issued May 7 at 12:20PM MDT until May 8 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH WEDNESDAY...A persistent trough over the Northern Rockies will maintain drywest flow across the U.S. Southwest over the next couple days.Disturbances within this prevailing flow will allow winds toincrease area-wide into the middle of the week. Gusty winds willdevelop each afternoon combining with very low relative humidityto create critical to extreme fire danger. Recent lack ofprecipitation has progressed fuel dryness to a point wherewildfire starts will be possible and spread aided by weatherconditions.* AFFECTED AREA...Texas Fire Weather Zone 055 El Paso County, TexasFire Weather Zone 056 Hudspeth County, Fire Weather Zone 110Southwest Mountains/Gila NF/Apache NF/GLZ, Fire Weather Zone 111Southwest Deserts and Lowlands/Las Cruces BLM/GLZ, Fire WeatherZone 112 South Central Lowlands and Southern Rio GrandeValley/BLM/GLZ and Fire Weather Zone 113 Capitan and SacramentoMountains/Lincoln NF/LNZ.* TIMING...From Noon to 9PM Tuesday and from Noon to 9 PMWednesday.* WINDS...West 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 5 percent.* TEMPERATURES...In the 80s to near 90 for the lowlands. 60s and70s in the mountains.* EXPERIMENTAL RFTI...For Tuesday, 5 to 8 Critical to Extreme.For Wednesday, 4 to 6 Near Critical to Critical.* IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.Outdoor burning is not recommended.A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditionsare either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination ofstrong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures cancontribute to extreme fire behavior.

National Weather Service