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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS El Paso, TX

June 1, 2017Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2017, 3:24 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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: Jun 1, 2017, 3:24 PM MDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2017, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

615 
WGUS54 KEPZ 012124
FFWEPZ
TXC229-020030-
/O.NEW.KEPZ.FF.W.0002.170601T2124Z-170602T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service El Paso TX
324 PM MDT THU JUN 1 2017

The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  West central Hudspeth County in southwestern Texas...

* Until 630 PM MDT

* At 323 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated slow-moving thunderstorms 
  producing heavy rain in the vicinity of Acala. Over one inch of 
  rain has already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin 
  shortly.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Acala...
  Fort Hancock...
  Portions of Texas State Highway 20.

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 3129 10587 3129 10590 3131 10591 3131 10593
      3134 10595 3136 10595 3138 10599 3147 10590
      3136 10576 3127 10585

$$

HARDIMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	51 min
May 31, 10:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	22 min
Jun 1, 2:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	52 min
Jun 1, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	44 min
Jun 1, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	41 min
Jun 1, 3:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	14 min
Jun 1, 4:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	42 min
Jun 1, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	49 min
Jun 1, 4:20 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 hr
Jun 1, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	41 min
Jun 1, 4:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	52 min
Jun 1, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hudspeth	40 min
Jun 1, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	21 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hudspeth	48 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.