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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2016, 3:01 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2016, 3:01 PM MDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2016, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1255 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
970
WGUS54 KEPZ 212101
FFWEPZ
TXC141-212300-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0009.160821T2101Z-160821T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
301 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EL PASO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY IN WESTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 500 PM MDT
* AT 259 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER EAST EL PASO AND FORT BLISS. OVER A HALF
INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST 15 TO 20 MINUTES. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
NORTHEAST EL PASO...
CENTRAL EL PASO...
EAST EL PASO...
FORT BLISS...
BIGGS FIELD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS...
URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER
POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3175 10642 3176 10646 3200 10650 3200 10620
3180 10622 3174 10640
$$
HARDIMAN1 follow-up statement
844
WGUS74 KEPZ 212156
FFSEPZ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
356 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016
TXC141-212300-
/O.CON.KEPZ.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-160821T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EL PASO TX-
356 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL EL PASO COUNTY...
AT 353 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN HAVE MOSTLY PUSHED OUT OF CENTRAL EL PASO AND FORT BLISS. STORMS
CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST EL PASO AND ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AND
MAY MOVE BACK INTO NORTHEAST EL PASO.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
NORTHEAST EL PASO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN.
ARROYOS...STREAMS...AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES...EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
&&
LAT...LON 3185 10638 3184 10647 3200 10650 3200 10620
3180 10622 3176 10634
$$
HARDIMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 12:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 1:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 2:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 117 min |
| Aug 21, 2:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 56 min |
| Aug 21, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 3:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 52 min |
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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.