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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS El Paso, TX

July 1, 2000Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2000, 5:06 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 119 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 1, 2000, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2000, 7:05 PM MDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Grant County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 617 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
617 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 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 012306
FFWEPZ
NMC017-020105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
506 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 705 PM MDT

* AT 4:45 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN A LINE ALONG
  THE BLACK RANGE IN EASTERN GRANT COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN
  IS FALLING EAST OF STATE HIGHWAYS 15...35...AND 61. THESE
  STORMS WERE STATIONARY WITH RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF UP TO
  THREE INCHES AN HOUR.

*

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE TO ESCAPE
FLOOD WATERS.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS RISING.

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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.