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Flash Flood Warning 111, NWS El Paso, TX

September 11, 2022Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2022, 5:39 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 73 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 11, 2022, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2022, 6:52 PM MDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Grant County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 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 flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Sep 11, 2:07 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 2:07 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 4:55 PM MDT, 44 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
Sep 10, 6:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	86 min
Sep 10, 6:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	61 min
Sep 10, 7:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	57 min
Sep 10, 7:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	54 min
Sep 10, 8:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	55 min
Sep 10, 8:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Sep 10, 8:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	117 min
Sep 11, 1:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	26 min
Sep 11, 1:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	87 min
Sep 11, 1:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	8 min
Sep 11, 1:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Sierra	104 min
Sep 11, 3:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	66 min
Sep 11, 4:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	29 min
Sep 11, 4:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	52 min
Sep 11, 4:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		35 min
Sep 11, 5:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	51 min
Sep 11, 5:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	57 min
Sep 11, 5:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	88 min
Sep 11, 5:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	6 min
Sep 11, 5:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	71 min
Sep 11, 5:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	42 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.