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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX

September 5, 2005El Paso County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1093 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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

$$

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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.