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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS El Paso, TX

June 26, 1986Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1986, 10:00 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1986, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1986, 6:00 AM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Otero 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

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 827 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr

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.