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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS El Paso, TX

August 20, 2022El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 2022, 2:38 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. 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 20, 2022, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 2022, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 20, 2:14 PM MDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 2:14 PM MDT, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 20, 11:08 AM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM
1108 AM MDT Sat Aug 20 2022

NMZ401>417-TXZ418>424-211715-
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-
1108 AM MDT Sat Aug 20 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
Periods of rain, heavy at times, will continue throughout the
afternoon and into the overnight hours. Local rainfall amounts
will generally range between one half inch and one inch. However
there will be the chance for a few embedded thunderstorms later
today. As such, areas with thunderstorms will likely see much
higher rainfall totals of up to three inches or more, which will
certainly lead to localized flash flooding. Even outside of
individual thunderstorms, the potential for some localized flash
flooding will continue to exist due to the saturated soils from
recent rain across the region. Some flooding along area rivers is
also possible with this scenario.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday
Showers and thunderstorms will continue to be possible throughout
the extended period. However coverage will become more scattered
in nature as the region returns to a more typical monsoon type
pattern for over the days to come. And due to saturated conditions
from today and tonight, localized flooding will continue to be a
possibility where heavier rain manages to fall.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
Spotters are encouraged to stay vigilant today through tonight for
heavy rain and flooding. Please be quick to call the NWS office
with reports of heavy rain, rainfall totals, and observed
flooding.

Laney

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 20, 10:17 AM MDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 1:54 PM MDT, 44 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 19, 6:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Aug 19, 7:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	3 hr
Aug 20, 12:12 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Aug 20, 12:18 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	4 hr
Aug 20, 12:53 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Otero	3 hr
Aug 20, 4:21 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 20, 7:43 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	6 hr
Aug 20, 9:33 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 20, 11:08 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 20, 1:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	118 min
Aug 20, 1:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	36 min
Aug 20, 2:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 20, 2:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	114 min
Aug 20, 2:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	117 min
Aug 20, 2:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	6 hr
Aug 20, 3:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 20, 4:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	38 min
Aug 20, 4:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	2 hr
Aug 20, 4:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		39 min
Aug 20, 4:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Aug 20, 4:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 20, 5:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Aug 20, 5:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Aug 19, 9:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	114 min
Aug 20, 12:36 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 20, 1:35 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	El Paso	3 hr
Aug 20, 1:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	2 hr
Aug 20, 1:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	119 min
Aug 20, 2:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 hr
Aug 20, 3:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	3 hr
Aug 20, 3:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hudspeth	3 hr
Aug 20, 3:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso, 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.