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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2024, 5:16 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico; Hudspeth County, Texas. It was in force for 104 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2024, 5:16 PM MDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 104 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Otero County, NM, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 349 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 Jun 26, 1:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:46 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Special Weather Statement National Weather Service El Paso TX 458 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2024 NMZ411-427-TXZ419-262330- West Central Tularosa Basin/White Sands NM- Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley NM- Eastern/Central El Paso County TX- 458 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2024 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN DONA ANA AND NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM MDT... At 458 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Anthony, moving west at 10 mph. HAZARD...Nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Chaparral, Anthony, Vado, Anthony Gap, Berino, and High Valley. This includes Interstate 10 in New Mexico between mile markers 156 and 164. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. && LAT...LON 3209 10645 3200 10650 3200 10667 3216 10663 TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 108DEG 8KT 3204 10657 MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH BROWN
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 26, 11:26 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:47 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:50 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 115 min |
| Jun 26, 11:54 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 117 min |
| Jun 26, 4:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 5:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 14 min |
| Jun 26, 3:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:20 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.