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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS El Paso, TX

June 30, 2000El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2000, 7:46 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
Jun 30, 2000, 7:46 PM MDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2000, 8:50 PM MDT
In force
64 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, 1.8 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 2000-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 807 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
807 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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 
WGUS54 KEPZ 010146
FFWEPZ
TXC141-010250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
746 PM MDT FRI JUN 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 850 PM MDT

* AT 745 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN EXTREME
  SOUTHEAST EL PASO IN THE LOWER VALLEY. THIS STORM IS MOVING
  SLOWLY EAST.

*

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD %BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE 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.