Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 28, 2000, 6:16 AM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 89 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
- Oct 28, 2000, 6:16 AM MDT (12:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 7:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Doña Ana County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:17 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEPZ 281221 FFWEPZ NMC013-281345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 616 AM MDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN DONA ANA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAS CRUCES...UNIVERSITY PARK... ANTHONY * UNTIL 745 AM MDT * AT 613 AM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY INCLUDING THE LAS CRUCES AND ANTHONY VICNITY. RADAR INDICATED THESE A FEW STORMS WERE PRODUCING OVER AN INCH OF RAINFALL PER HOUR. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS ISOLATED PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA MAY RECEIVE OVER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL BEFORE 8 AM THIS MORNING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN EL PASO.
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.