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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2008, 12:59 PM MDT for Otero 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 13, 2008, 12:59 PM MDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2008, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Otero County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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 13, 7:12 AM MDT, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 7:12 AM MDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 11:48 AM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1148 AM MDT SUN JUL 13 2008 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-141800- 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- 1148 AM MDT SUN JUL 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT VERY MOIST AIR OVER FAR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO WILL ALLOW SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AGAIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE MONDAY WITH THE CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH TUESDAY INTO THE END OF THE WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER TO THIS OFFICE OR TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 6:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 7:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant, Luna | 90 min |
| Jul 13, 7:36 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | EPZ | 22 hr | |
| Jul 13, 12:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Sierra | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 116 min |
| Jul 12, 6:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 10:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008
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.