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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS El Paso, TX

July 28, 2010Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2010, 2:06 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 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 28, 2010, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
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 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2:42 AM MDT, 11 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:42 AM MDT, 11 hours 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 10:54 AM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 1:29 PM MDT, 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Luna	112 min
Jul 27, 8:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	2 hr
Jul 27, 10:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	2 hr
Jul 28, 11:49 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	116 min
Jul 28, 2:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	El Paso	26 min
Jul 28, 2:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	62 min
Jul 28, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	23 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2010 Every flash flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.