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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 1999, 12:58 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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 13, 1999, 12:58 PM MDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 1999, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Sep 13, 9:58 AM MDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 9:58 AM MDT, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION - UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 958 AM MDT MON SEP 13 1999 DISCUSSION... AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT BROUGHT RAIN TO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE BORDER. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SIERRA AND GRANT COUNTIES. LOW CLOUDS...FOG AND LIGHT RAIN CONTINUE ALONG THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS. .ELP...NONE 04 N
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 10:28 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
NMZ022-131715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1028 AM MDT MON SEP 13 1999 AT 1030 AM MDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE GILA WILDERNESS IN NORTHCENTRAL GRANT COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH EAST AT 10 MPH AND SHOULD REMAIN OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN OF THE GILA WILDERNESS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 0
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 10:28 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
NMZ022-131715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1028 AM MDT MON SEP 13 1999 AT 1030 AM MDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE GILA WILDERNESS IN NORTHCENTRAL GRANT COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH EAST AT 10 MPH AND SHOULD REMAIN OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN OF THE GILA WILDERNESS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 0
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 12:40 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 11:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant | 46 min |
| Sep 13, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Luna | 64 min |
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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.