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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

June 26, 2000Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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 26, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2000, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 2000-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 734 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KEPZ 270116
FFWEPZ
NMC051-270415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
715 PM MDT MON JUN 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SIERRA COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1015 PM MDT

* AT 710 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR TRUTH OR
  CONSEQUENCES... MOVING NORTHEAST 10 MPH. 911 DISPATCH REPORTED
  WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.

*

PEOPLE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY.  MOTORISTS SHOULD BE
ESPECIALLY CAREFUL AT NIGHT AND AVOID DRIVING INTO MOVING WATER
OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.



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The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna65 min
Jun 26, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra59 min
Jun 26, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZLuna65 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.