Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1996, 7:25 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 7:25 PM MDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 300125 FFWELP TXC141-300330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 725 PM MDT SAT JUN 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...EL PASO COUNTY AT 720 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH IN EASTERN EL PASO COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND ARE PRODUCING AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN OF OVER AN INCH AN HOUR. THIS COMBINED WITH PREVIOUS HEAVY RAIN CREATES THE POTENTIAL FOR FURTHER FLOODING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
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, 1:49 PM MDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ055-056-057-NMZ024-032-292145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 149 PM MDT SAT JUN 29 1996 AT 145 PM MDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS RAPIDLY DEVLOPED OVER THE EAST SIDE OF THE EL PASO METROPOLITAN AREA AND IS MOVING SOUTHWEST. PUBLIC HAS REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE CIELO VISTA AREA AND AT THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. WIND GUSTS TO 51 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER THE NEWMAN...NORTHEAST EL PASO...AND SOUTH OF HORIZON CITY BTWEEN CLINT AND FABENS. THESE ARE ALSO MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCING MINOR STREET FLOODING...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. 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.
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.