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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS El Paso, TX

July 28, 20136 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jul 28, 2013, 11:57 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2013, 11:57 AM MDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2013, 7:50 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Flood severity: None

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM, Luna County, NM, Otero County, NM, Sierra County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jul 28, 3:32 AM MDT, 8 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:32 AM MDT, 8 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 11:28 AM MDT, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 7:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	111 min
Jul 27, 8:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 28, 12:17 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	118 min
Jul 28, 12:27 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	93 min
Jul 28, 1:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna, Sierra	118 min
Jul 28, 3:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	112 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2013 Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2013 Every flash flood watch in 2013

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.