Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 5, 2014, 4:33 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 5, 2014, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 46 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2014, 4:33 AM MDT (10:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 5, 2014, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2014, 4:21 AM MDT
- In force
- 46 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 radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:35 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 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 Sep 5, 3:33 AM MDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 3:33 AM MDT, 1 hour before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 4, 11:16 AM MDT, 17 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1116 AM MDT THU SEP 4 2014 NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-051730- UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-SOUTHERN GILA HIGHLANDS/BLACK RANGE- SOUTHERN GILA FOOTHILLS/MIMBRES VALLEY- SOUTHWEST DESERT/LOWER GILA RIVER VALLEY-LOWLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL- UPLANDS OF THE BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN- EASTERN BLACK RANGE FOOTHILLS-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES- 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- 1116 AM MDT THU SEP 4 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NM AND TX. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOCAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. BETTER CHANCE OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS TAPERING TO SCATTERED MONDAY AND TO JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. HEFNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 6:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 57 min | |
| Sep 4, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 34 min |
| Sep 4, 6:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Luna | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 7:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 7:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 8:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 8:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 116 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.