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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2022, 4:30 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 90 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 31, 2022, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Sierra County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 2:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 12:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM 1245 PM MDT Sun Jul 31 2022 NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-011845- Upper Gila River Valley-Southern Gila Highlands/Black Range- Southern Gila Foothills/Mimbres Valley- Southwest Desert/Lower Gila River Valley-Lowlands of the Bootheel- Uplands of the Bootheel-Southwest Desert/Mimbres Basin- Eastern Black Range Foothills-Sierra County Lakes- Northern Dona Ana County-Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley- Central Tularosa Basin-Southern Tularosa Basin- West Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet- Sacramento Mountains Above 7500 Feet- East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet-Otero Mesa- Western El Paso County-Eastern/Central El Paso County- Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-Salt Basin- Southern Hudspeth Highlands- Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties- Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County- 1245 PM MDT Sun Jul 31 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of south central New Mexico, southwest New Mexico, and southwest Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Drier air and high pressure aloft will limit our thunderstorm activity this afternoon and tonight. With lower rain chances we will see higher temperatures, with afternoon high temperatures a few degrees above average, which will put some lowland locations close to the triple digit mark. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday We will continue to see lower rain chances and warmer high temperatures on Monday and Tuesday. Then moisture will begin to creep back into the area to raise our rain chances for the end of the week and help get high temperatures back a little below average. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 117 min |
| Jul 30, 7:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 117 min |
| Jul 30, 9:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 27 min |
| Jul 30, 10:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 1:00 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hidalgo | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 1:33 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hidalgo | 27 min |
| Jul 31, 2:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 118 min |
| Jul 31, 3:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:01 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 99 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.