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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS El Paso, TX

July 17, 2014Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2014, 1:56 PM MDT for Grant 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: Jul 17, 2014, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2014, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 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), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

523 
WGUS54 KEPZ 171956
FFWEPZ
NMC017-172200-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0013.140717T1956Z-140717T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
156 PM MDT THU JUL 17 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 155 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
  WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SAN LORENZO...
  SHERMAN...
  SAN JUAN...
  MIMBRES...
  IRON CREEK CAMPGROUND...

RADAR INDICATES OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR 
WITH MORE RAINFALL LIKELY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT NEAR SILVER FIRE BURN AREA.
RAPID RISES IN WATER AND QUICK MOVING DEBRIS FLOWS ARE POSSIBLE.
AVOID CREEKS AND DRAINAGES NEAR BURNED AREAS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
QUICKLY. IF CAUGHT BY FLASH FLOODING OR DEBRIS FLOWS...CALL 911.

&&

LAT...LON 3293 10779 3290 10777 3286 10777 3286 10778
      3283 10775 3280 10775 3273 10790 3286 10799

$$

ROGASH

1 follow-up statement

347 
WGUS74 KEPZ 172100
FFSEPZ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
300 PM MDT THU JUL 17 2014

NMC017-172200-
/O.CON.KEPZ.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140717T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
GRANT NM-
300 PM MDT THU JUL 17 2014

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL
GRANT COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM MDT...

AT 255 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA.

DOPPLAR RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AN INCH AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES OF 
RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR THE CREST OF THE BLACK RANGE EAST OF MIMBRES ON 
THE SILVER FIRE BURN SCAR. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY AS THE GROUND IS 
ALREADY WET FROM RAINFALL ON PREVIOUS DAYS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SAN LORENZO...
  SHERMAN...
  SAN JUAN...
  MIMBRES...
  IRON CREEK CAMPGROUND...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED 
AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3293 10779 3290 10777 3286 10777 3286 10778
      3283 10775 3280 10775 3273 10790 3286 10799

$$

FAUSETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 6:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	2 hr
Jul 16, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	45 min
Jul 16, 6:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	50 min
Jul 16, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	45 min
Jul 16, 7:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	60 min
Jul 17, 2:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jul 17, 2:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	117 min
Jul 17, 3:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	111 min
Jul 17, 4:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	38 min
Jul 17, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	43 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.