Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1990, 5:18 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1990, 5:18 PM MDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1990, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 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 292320 FFWELP TXC141-300115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 518 PM MDT SUN JUL 29 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...EL.PASO COUNTY AS OF 515 PM MDT OVER A HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED IN THE PAST 15 MINUTES AT THE EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. FLOODING OF STREETS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE CITY. 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 ESCAPE 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 29, 1:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
TXC141-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 104 PM MDT SUN JUL 29 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN DEVELOPING OVER THE EL PASO AREA... AT 100 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVEOLPING ONCE AGAIN TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNYING. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RISING WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING UNDERPASSES AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
TXC043-243-377-300100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 252 PM MDT (352 PM CDT) SUN JUL 29 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN THE ALPINE AREA OF NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY... AT 240 MDT PM (340 PM CDT) POLICE IN ALPINE REPORTED HIGH WATER IN ALL CREEK BEDS AND ARROYOS IN THE ALPINE AREA. REPORTS INDICATE WATER FILLING UP UNDER HIGHWAY 90 EAST OF THE CITY. RADAR INDICATES WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE AREA. SURFACE REPORTS INDICATE LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINSHOWERS IN THE CITY OF ALPINE WITH THE WATER SOAKING INTO THE GROUND AS FAST AS IT FALLS. SATELLITE PRCIPITATION ESTIMATES UP TO 3/4 OF AND INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT TWO HOURS OVER THIS AREA. AT THIS RATE OF RAINFALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT IT SHOULD CONTINUE SOAKING INTO THE GROUND...HOWEVER HEAVIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS CAN BE EXPECTED CAUSING FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS...CREEK BEDS...AND ARROYOS.2 PLEASE REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE LOCAL POLICE FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 4:19 PM MDT, 59 minutes before
NMC013-035-TXC141-229-292315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 418 PM MDT SUN JUL 29 1990 .....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE EL PASO METROPOLITAN AREA... AT 410 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINFALL... GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...WERE MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST SECTION OF THE CITY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH AND SHOULD EFFECT THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE CITY...PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS MAY BE EXPECTED. AREAS NOT RECOVERED FROM PREVIOUS STREET AND UNDERPASS FLOODING TWO DAYS AGO SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE RADIO/TV STATION FOR ANY LATER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 3:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Brewster | 3 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.