Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1992, 3:53 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1992, 3:53 PM MDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1992, 6:24 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 272159 FFWELP TXC141-280100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 353 PM MDT MON JUL 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...EASTERN EL.PASO COUNTY THE HUECO TANKS STATE PARK...20 MILES EAST EL PASO TEXAS... REPORTS IN EXCESS OF ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE PAST HOUR. ARROYOS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE IMPASSABLE AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING IN THE AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 27, 3:08 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
NMC013-035-TXC109-141-229-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 303 PM MDT (403 PM CDT) MON JUL 27 1992 ...STRONG SUMMER THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE EL PASO CITY LIMITS... RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EL PASO COUNTY FROM SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM THE LAS CRUCES/ALMOGORDO NEW MEXICO AREA SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE EL PASO VICINITY TO THE SIERRA BLANCA/VAN HORN AREA OF WEST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINS THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING OR PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS...UNDERPASSES ANDv INTERSECTIONS. MOTORISTS DRIVING HOME FROM WORK THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD USE CAUTION AND EXPECT TO TAKE MORE TIME TO DRIVE HOME. THESE THUNDEERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING.
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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.