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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2013, 12:34 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 5, 2013, 12:34 PM MDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2013, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Grant County, NM
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 5, 3:53 AM MDT, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:53 AM MDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 11:52 AM MDT, 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1152 AM MDT FRI JUL 5 2013 NMZ401-404>407-410>417-TXZ418>424-061700- UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-SOUTHWEST DESERT/LOWER GILA RIVER VALLEY- LOWLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL-UPLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL- SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN-NORTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY- SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY/MESILLA VALLEY-CENTRAL TULAROSA BASIN- SOUTHERN TULAROSA BASIN- WEST SLOPES SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 7500 FEET- SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 7500 FEET- EAST SLOPES SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BELOW 7500 FEET-OTERO MESA- WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY-EASTERN/CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY- NORTHERN HUDSPETH HIGHLANDS/HUECO MOUNTAINS-SALT BASIN- SOUTHERN HUDSPETH HIGHLANDS- RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF EASTERN EL PASO/WESTERN HUDSPETH COUNTIES- RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF EASTERN HUDSPETH COUNTY- 1152 AM MDT FRI JUL 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM AND TX. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AREA WIDE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. A FEW STORMS MIGHT PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. STORMS WILL BE MORE FREQUENT THIS EVENING AND THEN BEGIN TO WEAKEN BY MIDNIGHT. HEAVIER RAIN AMOUNTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR LOCALIZED FLOODING ALONG DRAINAGES AND POORLY DRAINED LOW LYING AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISOLATED LOWLAND AND SCATTERED MOUNTAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. STORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM SOME STORMS MAY CAUSE MINOR LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING OR POORLY DRAINED AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OR DAMAGE OR FLOODING TO THIS OFFICE. NMZ402-403-408-409-051700- SOUTHERN GILA HIGHLANDS/BLACK RANGE- SOUTHERN GILA FOOTHILLS/MIMBRES VALLEY- EASTERN BLACK RANGE FOOTHILLS-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES- 1152 AM MDT FRI JUL 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN SIERRA COUNTY AND PORTIONS OF EASTERN GRANT COUNTY FOR AREAS NEAR THE SILVER FIRE BURN SCAR. THE FIRE HAS REMOVED VEGETATION FROM A LARGE PORTION OF THE BLACK RANGE...LEAVING BARE SOIL THAT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SOAK IN EVEN MODERATE AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL. RAIN AMOUNTS OF A HALF INCH OR GREATER WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ON AFFECTED CREEKS AND DRAINAGES. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER THE ENTIRE AREA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION... STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR GREATER AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR FROM SOME OF THE STORMS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS FROM A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND MAY PRODUCE MORE RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...STRONG WIND GUSTS AND MOSTLY SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OR DAMAGE OR FLOODING TO THIS OFFICE. HEFNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hidalgo | 25 min |
| Jul 5, 8:03 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | EPZ | Grant, Luna, Sierra | 22 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 118 min |
| Jul 5, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Luna | 49 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.