Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2011, 12:29 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2011, 12:29 PM MDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2011, 2:30 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 1:39 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 2.32 | 3 Ssw Silver Lake, NM | MEASURED AT DRY CANYON CWOP SITE. MOST OF THE RAIN FELL WITHIN 1 HOUR. |
| Jul 13, 1:42 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.69 | 5 E Cloudcroft, NM | |
| Jul 13, 1:43 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.25 | 3 Sw Silver Lake, NM | |
| Jul 13, 1:44 PM MDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.23 | 3 Wnw Mayhill, NM | |
| Jul 13, 2:23 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | Cloudcroft, NM | FLOODING OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF CLOUDCROFT INCLUDING THE HIGH SCHOOL AREA...AROUND THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND OVER HIGHWAY 130. PEA SIZED HAIL ALSO COVERING THE GROUND. SAND BAGS NOW BEING UTILIZED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
835 WGUS54 KEPZ 131829 FFWEPZ NMC035-132030- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0001.110713T1829Z-110713T2030Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1229 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 230 PM MDT * AT 1229 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CLOUDCROFT... ELK SILVER... SIXTEEN SPRINGS... SILVER LAKE... SUNSPOT... WEED... SACRAMENTO... MAYHILL... BLUFF SPRINGS... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR CREEKS AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. && LAT...LON 3277 10536 3278 10589 3332 10564 3331 10532 $$ PARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 1:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 2:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 3:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.