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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2011, 11:24 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 111 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, 11:24 PM MDT (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2011, 1:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 111 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), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
121 WGUS54 KEPZ 140524 FFWEPZ NMC035-140715- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0005.110714T0524Z-110714T0715Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1124 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 115 AM MDT * AT 1119 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... THIS AREA RECEIVED ABOUT TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST 36 HOURS...WITH SEVERAL REPORTS OF MINOR FLOODING EARLIER TODAY IN THE CLOUDCROFT AREA. SHOWERS CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHWARD ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS LATE THIS EVENING AND IF MORE RAIN FALLS IN AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. LAT...LON 3307 10543 3267 10542 3273 10583 3322 10575 $$ HEFNER
1 follow-up statement
565 WGUS74 KEPZ 140653 FFSEPZ FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1253 AM MDT THU JUL 14 2011 NMC035-140715- /O.CON.KEPZ.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110714T0715Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ OTERO NM- 1253 AM MDT THU JUL 14 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL OTERO COUNTY UNTIL 115 AM MDT... AT 1249 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE RAINFALL OVER THE WARNED AREA WAS DIMINISHING. WHILE LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...IT APPEARS THAT AMOUNTS WILL BE TOO LIGHT TO WARRENT CONTINUATION OF THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING AND IT WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 115 AM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CLOUDCROFT... ELK SILVER... SIXTEEN SPRINGS... SILVER LAKE... SUNSPOT... WEED... SACRAMENTO... MAYHILL... BLUFF SPRINGS... LAT...LON 3307 10543 3267 10542 3273 10583 3322 10575 $$ MACBLAIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra | 111 min |
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.