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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2006, 2:26 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 28, 2006, 2:26 PM MDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2006, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 28, 3:35 AM MDT, 10 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:35 AM MDT, 10 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 10:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1030 AM MDT FRI JUL 28 2006 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-290000- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION- TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST DESERT/BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN- SOUTHERN DESERT-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- 1030 AM MDT FRI JUL 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HIGH LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL ENSURE THAT MANY OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERN. IN ADDITION...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH A FEW STORMS. RAIN AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED 3 INCHES WITHIN 3 HOURS OVER ISOLATED AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. PRIMARY WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE OVER ISOLATED AREAS. A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. MAINLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT HESITATE TO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WITH REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER. SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE CALLED UPON TO PROVIDE LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS...SPECIFICALLY TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND FLOODING. BIRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 1:34 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | EPZ | 3 days | |
| Jul 28, 4:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 119 min |
| Jul 27, 9:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.