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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS El Paso, TX

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

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2022, 1:16 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
Jul 11, 2022, 1:16 PM MDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2022, 3:30 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 19:17 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 2022-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 167 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 2022-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2393 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 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 10, 6:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna3 hr
Jul 10, 7:12 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana2 hr
Jul 11, 12:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant118 min
Jul 11, 2:11 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna109 min
Jul 11, 3:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna24 min
Jul 11, 3:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant26 min
Jul 11, 3:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZLuna2 hr
Jul 11, 3:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant117 min
Jul 11, 4:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant117 min
Jul 11, 4:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant108 min
Jul 11, 4:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo115 min
Jul 11, 5:54 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero111 min
Jul 10, 6:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Jul 11, 5:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso34 min
Jul 11, 5:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso115 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.