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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS El Paso, TX

August 4, 2022Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2022, 3:04 PM MDT for Otero 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
Aug 4, 2022, 3:04 PM MDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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 Aug 4, 2:47 PM MDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:47 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:33 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant25 min
Aug 3, 7:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo35 min
Aug 3, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Hidalgo43 min
Aug 3, 7:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo116 min
Aug 3, 7:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo23 min
Aug 3, 7:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZGrant, Hidalgo3 hr
Aug 3, 8:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo29 min
Aug 3, 8:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo37 min
Aug 3, 8:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ27 min
Aug 3, 8:41 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Aug 3, 9:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo35 min
Aug 3, 9:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHidalgo31 min
Aug 3, 9:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo117 min
Aug 3, 11:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHidalgo35 min
Aug 4, 12:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHidalgo47 min
Aug 4, 12:46 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant29 min
Aug 4, 12:54 AM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZHidalgo66 min
Aug 4, 1:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ37 min
Aug 4, 2:00 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 4, 2:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ27 min
Aug 4, 2:39 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 4, 2:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 4, 3:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Otero24 min
Aug 4, 3:47 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 4, 3:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 4, 3:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana31 min
Aug 4, 4:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 4, 4:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero33 min
Aug 4, 3:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso33 min
Aug 4, 4:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso28 min
Aug 4, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHudspeth33 min
Aug 4, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZHudspeth26 min
Aug 4, 5:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Aug 4, 5:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth3 hr

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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.