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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS El Paso, TX

July 1, 2022Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2022, 12:50 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2022, 12:50 PM MDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2022, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -291 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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 Jul 1, 11:49 AM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 11:49 AM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 11:53 AM MDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 9:10 AM MDT, 3 hours 40 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
Jun 30, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	31 min
Jun 30, 6:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	3 hr
Jun 30, 7:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	20 min
Jun 30, 7:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	31 min
Jun 30, 7:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Jun 30, 8:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Jul 1, 9:39 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	EPZ	Grant, Luna, Sierra	11 hr
Jul 1, 12:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 1, 12:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Jul 1, 12:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Jul 1, 1:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Jul 1, 1:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 1, 1:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	4 hr
Jul 1, 2:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Jul 1, 2:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 1, 2:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		32 min
Jul 1, 4:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	31 min
Jul 1, 5:10 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 hr

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.