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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS El Paso, TX

August 28, 2023Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2023, 2:09 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 28, 2023, 2:09 PM MDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2023, 5:15 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 20:08 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, 8.2 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 2023-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 85 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2023-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 1:14 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Sierra2 hr
Aug 28, 1:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 28, 1:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero4 hr
Aug 28, 2:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra32 min
Aug 28, 2:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra24 min
Aug 28, 2:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
Aug 28, 4:05 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana115 min
Aug 28, 4:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Aug 28, 5:13 PM MDTDust Storm WarningEPZHidalgo62 min
Aug 28, 5:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Aug 27, 6:54 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso2 hr
Aug 28, 5:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso35 min

Nearby

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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.