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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS El Paso, TX

July 4, 2022Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2022, 4:05 PM MDT for Grant 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
Jul 4, 2022, 4:05 PM MDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2022, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Grant County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 6:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant119 min
Jul 3, 6:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo119 min
Jul 3, 6:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo29 min
Jul 4, 2:50 AM MDTFlood WatchEPZGrant, Luna, Otero, Sierra19 hr
Jul 4, 12:26 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Jul 4, 12:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra2 hr
Jul 4, 12:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo32 min
Jul 4, 12:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra2 hr
Jul 4, 1:10 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 4, 1:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo26 min
Jul 4, 2:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna36 min
Jul 4, 3:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo25 min
Jul 4, 4:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna27 min
Jul 4, 5:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna36 min
Jul 4, 5:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna3 hr
Jul 4, 5:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra23 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.