Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1987, 11:15 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1987, 11:15 PM MDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1987, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- 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, 5.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:13 PM MDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION FOR TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 612 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1987 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF EL PASO COUNTY INCLUDING THE EAST AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY OF EL PASO.. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EL PASO COUNTY APPEAR TO BE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST..MODERATE RAIN WITH SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED THE LAST FEW MINUTES IN EAST EL PASO. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..ARROYOS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS ALSO LIKELY TO OCCUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO ANOTHER HAZARD USUALLY PRODUCED BY THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS SHOULD DISSAPATE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:19 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORR TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 712 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1987 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF EL PASO COUNTY INCLUDING THE EAST AND SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY OF EL PASO.. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EL PASO COUNTY APPEAR TO BE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST..MODERATE RAIN WITH SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED THE LAST FEW MINUTES IN EAST EL PASO. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..ARROYOS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS ALSO LIKELY TO OCCUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS ALSO ANOTHER HAZARD USUALLY PRODUCED BY THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS SHOULD DISSAPATE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | Otero | 60 min |
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.