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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 12, 2014, 6:21 AM MDT for Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2014, 6:21 AM MDT (12:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2014, 12:13 AM MDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 12, 5:03 AM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 5:03 AM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 1:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 117 min |
| Sep 12, 1:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 114 min |
| Sep 12, 1:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 116 min |
| Sep 12, 1:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 111 min |
| Sep 12, 3:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 117 min |
| Sep 12, 4:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 112 min |
| Sep 12, 6:14 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 8:33 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 117 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.