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Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS El Paso, TX

August 17, 2022Hudspeth County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 2022, 5:06 PM MDT for Hudspeth County, Texas. 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 17, 2022, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 2022, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Hudspeth County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 2022-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 276 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 2022-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 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
276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 2:59 PM MDTFlood WatchEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra4 days
Aug 17, 3:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHudspeth35 min
Aug 17, 4:17 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso80 min
Aug 17, 4:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Aug 17, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso33 min
Aug 17, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso30 min
Aug 17, 5:18 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.