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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS El Paso, TX

July 3, 2024Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2024, 2:55 PM MDT for Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 95 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
Jul 3, 2024, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2024, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
95 min
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 2024-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 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 2024-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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
Jul 2, 7:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana52 min
Jul 2, 7:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana112 min
Jul 2, 8:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana64 min
Jul 2, 10:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Jul 2, 10:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 3, 2:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra119 min
Jul 3, 3:37 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra113 min
Jul 3, 3:58 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra2 hr
Jul 3, 5:26 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant2 hr
Jul 2, 6:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso27 min
Jul 2, 6:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso3 hr
Jul 2, 9:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso30 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.