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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS El Paso, TX

July 19, 2002El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2002, 10:29 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2002, 10:29 PM MDT (04:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2002, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KEPZ 200429
FFWELP
TXC141-200530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
1026 PM MDT FRI JUL 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM MDT

* AT 1019 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE CITY OF EL PASO. 

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF 1 AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES 
AN HOUR WITH THIS STORM.  IN ADDITION OTHER STORMS IN EL PASO COUNTY 
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF 
FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL 
AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.


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.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3187 10658 3186 10637 3200 10634 3199 10657

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 2:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	El Paso	87 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.