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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX

October 6, 1986Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 1986, 2:15 AM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 6, 1986, 2:15 AM MDT (08:15 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 1986, 6:00 AM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Luna County, NM

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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1986-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1986-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.