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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS El Paso, TX

July 13, 2011Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2011, 2:18 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 2011, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2011, 3:15 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Grant County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2011-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2011-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

668 
WGUS54 KEPZ 132018
FFWEPZ
NMC017-132115-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0003.110713T2018Z-110713T2115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
218 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 217 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
  WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

  ROCKY CANYON CAMPGROUND...
  BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUNDS...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3322 10803 3318 10785 3300 10788 3305 10808

$$

PARK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 12:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero2 hr
Jul 13, 1:48 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero117 min
Jul 13, 3:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.