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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood watch at Oct 6, 2015, 6:28 AM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 6, 2015, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2015, 6:28 AM MDT (12:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 6, 2015, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2015, 6:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Otero County, NM, El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Oct 6, 6:14 AM MDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 6:14 AM MDT, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 5, 6:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 38 min |
| Oct 5, 9:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 39 min |
| Oct 6, 3:08 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 52 min | |
| Oct 6, 1:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 39 min |
| Oct 6, 5:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 51 min |
| Oct 6, 5:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 73 min |
| Oct 5, 7:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 47 min |
| Oct 5, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 39 min |
| Oct 5, 11:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 46 min |
| Oct 6, 2:07 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 53 min |
| Oct 6, 2:22 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 52 min |
| Oct 6, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 52 min |
| Oct 6, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 41 min |
| Oct 6, 3:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 19 min |
| Oct 6, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 49 min |
| Oct 6, 4:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Oct 6, 4:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 42 min |
| Oct 6, 5:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 113 min |
| Oct 6, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 51 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2015Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2015Every flash flood watch in 2015
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.