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Flash Flood Warning 119, NWS El Paso, TX

September 13, 2022Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2022, 5:48 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 13, 2022, 5:48 PM MDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 2022, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
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 23:49 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 304 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2022-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 545 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2022-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
545 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1363 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 6:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo, Luna3 hr
Sep 12, 6:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant15 min
Sep 12, 6:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo49 min
Sep 13, 2:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra113 min
Sep 13, 3:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo34 min
Sep 13, 3:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant31 min
Sep 13, 4:10 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo2 hr
Sep 13, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo32 min
Sep 13, 4:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo2 hr
Sep 13, 5:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Luna36 min
Sep 13, 5:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant34 min
Sep 13, 5:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna115 min
Sep 12, 6:46 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso119 min
Sep 12, 7:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso23 min
Sep 12, 7:19 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso116 min
Sep 12, 7:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZEl Paso88 min
Sep 12, 8:02 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZEl Paso88 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.