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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS El Paso, TX

July 29, 2007El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2007, 8:39 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 96 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: Jul 29, 2007, 8:39 PM MDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2007, 10:15 PM MDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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 300241
FFWEPZ
TXC141-300415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
839 PM MDT SUN JUL 29 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EL PASO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ANTHONY...SOCORRO...SAN ELIZARIO...
  MONTANA VISTA...FORT BLISS...FABENS...EL PASO...CANUTILLO...

* UNTIL 1015 PM MDT

* AT 933 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ON MESA STREET  
  ON THE WEST SIDE OF EL PASO PROPER FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE    
  WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EL         
  PASO...WESTWAY...SOCORRO...FABENS AND ANTHONY

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN EL
PASO.

LAT...LON 3200 10661 3200 10610 3148 10604 3150 10623
      3170 10636 3177 10644 3174 10648 3177 10653
      3178 10652 3181 10655 3184 10661

$$
PIEPER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 8:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	El Paso	96 min

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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.