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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX

October 4, 1986Brewster County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 4, 1986, 6:25 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 1986, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 1986, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 258 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 244 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 195 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.