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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS El Paso, TX

July 29, 2010Luna County, New Mexico

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2010-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 500 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2010-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 6:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna71 min
Jul 30, 12:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant116 min
Jul 30, 3:15 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant2 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.