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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS El Paso, TX

July 9, 2024Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2024, 1:48 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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
Jul 9, 2024, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Emergency
Flash flood emergency
Damage threat
Catastrophic
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 19:48 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, 7.8 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 2024-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 80 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 2024-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 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 8, 6:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra37 min
Jul 8, 6:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ31 min
Jul 8, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Sierra40 min
Jul 8, 8:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra37 min
Jul 9, 3:28 AM MDTFlood WatchEPZOtero45 hr
Jul 9, 1:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 9, 1:41 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 9, 1:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra25 min
Jul 9, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Sierra29 min
Jul 9, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant, Sierra34 min
Jul 9, 2:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 9, 3:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra25 min
Jul 9, 3:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra119 min
Jul 9, 3:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant25 min
Jul 9, 3:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra2 hr
Jul 9, 3:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo117 min
Jul 9, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra42 min
Jul 9, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZGrant39 min
Jul 9, 4:04 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra116 min
Jul 9, 4:19 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Sierra116 min
Jul 9, 4:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra23 min
Jul 9, 4:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna49 min
Jul 9, 4:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Otero60 min
Jul 9, 4:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra38 min
Jul 9, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZSierra39 min
Jul 9, 4:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana28 min
Jul 9, 4:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana57 min
Jul 9, 4:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant32 min
Jul 9, 5:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana, Luna51 min
Jul 9, 5:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant28 min
Jul 9, 5:27 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana2 hr
Jul 9, 5:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra119 min
Jul 9, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEPZDoña Ana40 min
Jul 9, 5:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZGrant24 min
Jul 9, 5:52 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Sierra113 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.