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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2022, 7:06 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 22, 2022, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2022, 8:08 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 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 01:08 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 00:00Z, 1.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 117 min |
| Jul 22, 6:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 13 min |
| Jul 22, 7:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 77 min |
| Jul 22, 7:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hidalgo | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 7:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 82 min |
| Jul 22, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Luna | 16 min |
| Jul 22, 9:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Sierra | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 9:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 10:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 114 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.