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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS El Paso, TX

July 25, 2022Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2022, 1:09 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra 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 25, 2022, 1:09 PM MDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2022, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
3 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 19:09 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, 7.2 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 2022-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 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 2022-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 24, 5:38 PM MDT, 19 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 5:38 PM MDT, 19 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 7:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna36 min
Jul 24, 7:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Luna3 hr
Jul 24, 8:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHidalgo, Luna37 min
Jul 25, 12:18 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana117 min
Jul 25, 2:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZOtero13 min
Jul 25, 2:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant31 min
Jul 25, 2:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant3 hr
Jul 25, 5:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero36 min
Jul 25, 5:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero119 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.