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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2010, 8:12 PM MDT for Luna County, New Mexico. It was in force for 108 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, 2010, 8:12 PM MDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2010, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 108 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Luna County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 29, 5:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 5:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 11:10 AM MDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1110 AM MDT THU JUL 29 2010 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-301700- 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- 1110 AM MDT THU JUL 29 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALLS WITH OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN FALLING OVER ISOLATED LOCATIONS. THUS FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. ISOLATED STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY DUE TO A COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND A WEATHER DISTURBANCE OVER THE AREA. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND FLASH FLOODING. ISOLATED STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL. PRECIPITATION WILL DECREASE NEXT WEEK WITH GENERALLY JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY TO MONITOR FOR FLASH FLOODING. ROGASH
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 6:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 71 min |
| Jul 30, 12:49 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 116 min |
| Jul 30, 3:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2010Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.