Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1996, 4:13 AM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1996, 4:13 AM MDT (10:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 7:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1009 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 291013 FFWELP NMC051-291315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 413 AM MDT SAT JUN 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO ...NORTH CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY. HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE LOCATED NEAR ELEPHANT BUTTE LAKE WHERE SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED. RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF OVER AN INCH AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN THE AREA. CONTINUED FLOODING WILL BE LIKELY UNTIL 7AM. 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 SMALbL 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, Jun 29, 2:43 AM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
NMZ023-290945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 243 AM MDT SAT JUN 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH WESTERN SIERRA COUNTY... AT 230 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN WESTERN SIERRA COUNTY EXTENDING FROM WINSTON EASTWARD TO TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WITH SOME STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. HEAVY RAINFALL CAN PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON STREETS AT INTERSECTIONS AND DIPS IN ROADS. NORMALLY DRY STREAMS AND ARROYOS MAY QUICKLY HAVE SWIFT RUNNING WATER IN THEM. AVOID LOW LYING AREAS. IF WATER RISES MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 3:19 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 56 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.