Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1990, 8:32 PM MDT for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1990, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1990, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth 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
El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KELP 220233 FFWELP TXC141-229-220430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 832 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...EASTERN EL.PASO COUNTY...WESTERN HUDSPETH COUNTY DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY AND WESTERN HUDSPETH COUNTY...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED FOR THE EFFECTED AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS SHOWN VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR...HOWEVER ANY MOVEMENT IS TO THE SOUTH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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, Jul 21, 3:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
NMC029-035-212345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 349 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 1990 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN FORMING OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO... AT 345 PM MDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING SOUTHEAST OF DEMING AND SOUTHEAST OF ALAMOGORGO IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS THE ONE SOUTHEAST OF DEMING. THIS STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE COLUMBUS NEW MEXICO AREA. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIR AND INTENSE LIGHTING.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
NMC013-029-035-TXC141-220015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 515 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 1990 JUST BEFORE 500 PM MDT THIS EVENING...A PILOT REPORTED TO THE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO FSS STATION...15 MILES WEST OF DEMING NEW MEXICO IN DONA ANA COUNTY...ALL ARROYOS AND SMALL STREAMS CONTAINED SIGNIFICANT RUNNING WATER. AT 500 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATES AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH DONA ANA COUNTY AND ARE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 TO 20 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS DURING THE EVENING HOURS AND MOVE TO THE SOUTH AT 10 TO 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAI NFALL...GUSTY WINDS...FLOODING OF NORMAL DRY ARROYOS AND WATER CROSSINGS. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
NMC013-220115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 619 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 1990 AT 615 PM MDT THIS EVENING...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. RADAR INDICATES THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED 30 TO 40 MILES NORTH AND 50 TO 100 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THESE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ARROYOS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY MIDNIGHT WITH ONLY A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS REMAINING OVER THE AREA. NO MORE REPORTS OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL WEST qOF DEMING NEW MEXICO HAVE B RECEIVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR ANY LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
NMC013-029-035-TXC141-220115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR FOR CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 619 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 1990 AT 615 PM MDT THIS EVENING...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. RADAR INDICATES THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED 30 TO 40 MILES NORTH AND 50 TO 100 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THESE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ARROYOS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY MIDNIGHT WITH ONLY A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS REMAINING OVER THE AREA. NO MORE REPORTS OF zTHE HEAVY RAINFALL WEST OF DEMING NEW MEXICO HAVE B BEEN RECEIVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR ANY LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 7:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NMC013-029-035-TXC141-229-220230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 721 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 1990 THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER OTERO COUNTY NEW MEXICO CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH BUT HAVE SHOWN SOME WEAKENING DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR...HOWEVER THE WEATHER OBSERVER AT WHITE SANDS MISSLE RANGE REPORTS AN OUTFLOW WIND BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTH. NORTH WINDS GUSTING TO 60 MPH MOVED SOUTH THROUGH NORTHROP STRIP ABOUT 630 PM...MOVING THROUGH WHITE SANDS HEADQUARTERS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH PRODUCING BLOWING SAND AND DUST OVER THE TULAROSA BASIN. THIS WIND BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN ITSELF AND MOVE THROUGH THE EL PASO AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO PRODUCING BRIEF NORTHERLY WIND TO 25 MPH AND SOME BLOWING DUST. THESE WINDS SHOULD ABATE TO LIGHT AND VARIABLE BY MIDNIGHT.
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.