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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX

June 29, 1996El Paso County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
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

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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.