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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2005, 9:20 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 115 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
- Sep 5, 2005, 9:20 PM MDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2005, 11:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 115 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), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1384 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KEPZ 060322 FFWEPZ TXC141-060515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 920 PM MDT MON SEP 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FORT BLISS...EL PASO * UNTIL 1115 PM MDT * AT 914 PM MDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND OFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING...FROM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CITY OF EL PASO. . EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAINAGES...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 FLOODING. 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. 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. LAT...LON 3174 10648 3174 10627 3192 10627 3192 10648 $$ TRIPOLI
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KEPZ 060408 FFSEPZ FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1001 PM MDT MON SEP 5 2005 TXC141-060425- EL PASO TX- 1001 PM MDT MON SEP 5 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 1000 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAPID DISSIPATION OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EL PASO. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS TAPERED OFF TO LIGHT RAIN AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED. SOME LIGHT RAIN IS STILL FALLING OVER THE CITY AND MANY DRAINAGES AND STREETS HAVE RUNNING WATER IN THEM. HOWEVER NO MAJOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED TO CENTRAL DISPATCH. THE EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED .88 HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN AN HOUR DURING THESE STORMS. LAT...LON 3174 10648 3174 10627 3192 10627 3192 10648 $$ BIRD
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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.