Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 2012, 6:57 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2012, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2012, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Doña Ana County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
793 WGUS54 KEPZ 080057 FFWEPZ NMC013-080300- /O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0009.120908T0057Z-120908T0300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 657 PM MDT FRI SEP 7 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 656 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 22 TO 26 ON HIGHWAY 185. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3265 10714 3267 10707 3257 10697 3251 10703 $$ TRIPOLI
1 follow-up statement
314 WGUS74 KEPZ 080227 FFSEPZ FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 827 PM MDT FRI SEP 7 2012 NMC013-080300- /O.CON.KEPZ.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120908T0300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ DONA ANA NM- 827 PM MDT FRI SEP 7 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM MDT... AT 816 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AT 750 PM...STATE POLICE WERE UNABLE TO DRIVE PAST MILE MARKER 21 ON HIGHWAY 185. HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER IN THIS AREA...HOWEVER MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL IN SOME AREAS OVER EAST SLOPES OF THE SIERRA DE LAS UVAS MOUNTAINS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. && LAT...LON 3265 10714 3267 10707 3257 10697 3251 10703 $$ TRIPOLI
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 6:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 117 min |
| Sep 7, 7:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 119 min |
| Sep 7, 9:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.