Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1999, 4:38 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 97 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
- Jul 5, 1999, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1999, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otero County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 KEPZ 052251 COR FFWELP NMC035-060015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORECTED TO OMIT 'IN EL PASO' NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 438 PM MDT MON JUL 5 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 434 PM MDT...TULAROSA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS SIGNIFICANT FLOODING ON AREA ROADS INCLUDING HIGHWAY 54/70 BETWEEN TULAROSA AND ALAMOROSA. TRAFFIC IS BEING STOPPED BY POLICE IN THIS AREA. WHILE RAINFALL HAS STOPPED FLASH FLOOD CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS WATER FROM PREVIOUS RAINS DRAIN FROM THE MOUNTAINS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3301 10615 3288 10599 3305 10 576 3320 10590
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.
NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 5, 1:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 1:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 100 PM MDT MON JUL 5 1999 SYNOPSIS... A CLOCKWISE CIRCULATION ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION WILL MAINTAIN A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS THROUGH AT LEAST MIDWEEK. DAYTIME HEATING WILL COMBINE WITH THE AIRMASS IN PLACE FOR MORE AFTERNOON AND NIGHTTIME THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BORDERLAND. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN AT OR SOMEWHAT BELOW NORMAL. DISCUSSION... VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWING SOME GOOD TSRA FIRING OVER COUNTIES JUST NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA (FA) IN AREA OF DEEPER MOISTURE LEFT OVER FROM LAST NIGHTS ACTIVITY AS DEPICTED IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. MUCH LIKE YESTERDAY...SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE TAP REMAINS OVER NORTHERN MEXICO INTO NEW MEXICO/PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS. 12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWING UPPER HIGH CENTERED OVER EAST-CENTRAL US WITH HIGH PROGGED TO BUILD FURTHER WESTWARD TODAY. TEMPS QUITE WARM ALOFT (-6C AT 500MB) AND EXPECT THEM TO RISE ANOTHER DEGREE OR 2 THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE ATMOSPHERE IS ABOUT AS MOIST BUT A BIT MORE UNSTABLE THAN YESTERDAY...EXPECT HIGHER MID LEVEL TEMPS TO KEEP ACTIVITY LIMITED TO MAINLY WIDELY SCATTERED LATER TODAY/TONIGHT EXCEPT OVER AREA MOUNTAINS WHERE SCATTERED WILL BE THE RULE. EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW TO CONTINUE OVER THE FA...SURFACE AND ALOFT...THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS UPPER HIGH SLOWLY MIGRATES INTO COLORADO WITH MOISTURE TAP SLOWLY PUSHING WESTWARD. WITH LACK OF ANY WELL DEFINED VORTMAXES NOR ANY GOOD 700MB OMEGA...WILL BROADBRUSH A LOW GRADE MONSOON PATTERN WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HIGHLIGHTED IN FIRST PERIOD. EXTENDED PROGS INDICATING UPPER HIGH TO REMAIN IN THE VICINITY OF THE 4-CORNERS REGION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. WILL CONTINUE ON SAME EXTENDED FORECAST TRACK. EL PASO BB 71/ 92/ 70/ 92/ 70 21212 LAS CRUCES BB 66/ 90/ 65/ 90/ 65 21212 ALAMOGORDO BB 68/ 91/ 67/ 91/ 67 22222 CLOUDCROFT BB 45/ 65/ 45/ 65/ 45 34343 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BB 69/ 88/ 68/ 88/ 68 32323 SILVER CITY BB 59/ 81/ 58/ 81/ 58 32323 DEMING BB 68/ 90/ 67/ 90/ 67 21212 LORDSBURG BB 68/ 93/ 67/ 93/ 67 21212 07 REYNOLDS N
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 92 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.