Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2022
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2022, 1:42 AM 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 19, 2022, 1:42 AM MDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2022, 4:00 AM 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 07:42 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 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 Aug 18, 11:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 11:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 70 min |
| Aug 19, 3:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:51 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero, Sierra | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 45 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.