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Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS El Paso, TX

August 5, 2022Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2022, 2:59 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: Aug 5, 2022, 2:59 PM MDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2022, 5:00 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 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 5, 2:20 PM MDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:20 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 1:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:30 PM MDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:53 PM MDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 12:58 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	32 min
Aug 5, 1:10 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	35 min
Aug 5, 1:26 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	34 min
Aug 5, 1:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 5, 1:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		28 min
Aug 5, 1:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 5, 2:16 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Aug 5, 2:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		30 min
Aug 5, 2:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		37 min
Aug 5, 3:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Sierra	11 min
Aug 5, 3:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	114 min
Aug 5, 3:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	114 min
Aug 5, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	30 min
Aug 5, 4:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	29 min
Aug 5, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	28 min
Aug 5, 4:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	18 min
Aug 5, 5:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	116 min
Aug 4, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	31 min
Aug 4, 7:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 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.