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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS El Paso, TX

September 8, 1996El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 1996, 7:35 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 8, 1996, 7:35 PM MDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 1996, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
115 min
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, 1.6 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 1996-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 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 1996-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 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
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 090135 RRA
FFWELP
TXC141-090330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
735 PM MDT SUN SEP 8 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
 
THE EL PASO FIRE DEPARTMENT CENTRAL DISPATCH HAS REPORTED SIGNIFICANT
FLOODING OF WILCOX ROAD SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 OFF HUNTER DRIVE IN
THE EL PASO LOWER VALLEY.  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO
ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF EL PASO
IN THE LAST HOUR.  THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING THIS RAINFALL ARE MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  THE RAIN SHOULD GRADUALLY END OVER THE CITY
OF EL PASO DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST
EL PASO COUNTY.
 
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.
 
 
 
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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.