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Areal Flood Advisory 331, NWS El Paso, TX

August 22, 2021Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 22, 2021, 1:05 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 22, 2021, 1:05 PM MDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2021, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Aug 22, 11:17 AM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 11:17 AM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 22, 11:12 AM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 8:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	119 min
Aug 21, 9:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	115 min
Aug 21, 10:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	118 min
Aug 22, 12:27 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	4 hr
Aug 22, 2:01 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	EPZ	Otero	22 hr
Aug 22, 2:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	118 min
Aug 22, 2:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	112 min
Aug 22, 5:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	2 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in New Mexico, 2021 Every areal flood advisory in 2021

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.