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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

July 15, 1993Brewster County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1993, 3:09 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 102 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1993, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1993, 4:51 PM CDT
In force
102 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 238 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 698 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
698 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.